Devin Booker ☆

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This season

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• Podcast NBA GM survey (reported), via Locked On Suns · Relayed report · Oct 16

  GM survey (as relayed by the host): Devin Booker got no votes for best shooting guard. Anthony Edwards got 73% of the vote.

• Podcast Benjamin Garcia, Locked On Suns · Opinion · Oct 16

  Host opinion: he has left Booker out of the 'shooting guard one' conversation for a while and thinks Anthony Edwards is better.

• Podcast Benjamin Garcia, Locked On Suns · Opinion · Oct 16

  Host opinion: he thinks Booker is better than Donovan Mitchell, though he goes back and forth. He calls the Mitchell ranking recency bias.

• Podcast Benjamin Garcia, Locked On Suns · Analysis · Oct 16

  Host says Booker has not won a playoff game since 2023.

• Podcast Benjamin Garcia, Locked On Suns · Analysis · Oct 16

  Host analysis: he believes the Suns' goal is to win a playoff series. In his view, they only get there if Booker is firmly in the shooting-guard-one conversation.

• Podcast Benjamin Garcia, Locked On Suns · Analysis · Oct 16

  Host analysis: Booker needs to get back to his 2023-24 production, which the host gives as about 27 points a game on 49% shooting, 36% from three and 88% from the line.

• Podcast Benjamin Garcia, Locked On Suns · Analysis · Oct 16

  Host analysis: opponents such as Oklahoma City and Portland rolled their coverages over to Booker and sometimes took him out of games. He says Booker was not bad last year but not elite.

• Podcast Benjamin Garcia, Locked On Suns · Analysis · Oct 16

  Host analysis: Bridges and Jalen Green are players on the margins who can raise the Suns' floor. Only Booker can raise the ceiling.

• Podcast Locked On Suns host · Analysis · Oct 15

  Host's view: the starting lineup can't shoot threes. He says Booker is a bad three-point shooter who shot 33% from three last year.

• Podcast Locked On Suns host · Opinion · Oct 15

  Host criticizes the Suns for taking preseason games off and wants more reps together for what he lists as the starting group: Booker, Brooks (likely Dillon Brooks), Bridges, Green and Oso (likely Oso Ighodaro).

• X Jeff McDonald (@JMcDonald_SAEN) · Report · Oct 14

  Ton of folks out for Suns tonight vs. Spurs, including Devin Booker. Phoenix will start the following fivesome: https://t.co/z61xYT5cpg

• Podcast Benjamin Garcia, Locked On Suns · Opinion · Oct 14

  Garcia argues that nothing else matters unless Devin Booker is awesome, and that if Booker is not great this year the Suns will not win a playoff series.

• Podcast Benjamin Garcia, Locked On Suns · Analysis · Oct 14

  Garcia reads Booker's 2022-23 numbers as the version the Suns need: 49% from the field, 35% from three, 85% at the free-throw line, and 27 points per game.

• Podcast Locked On Suns host · Analysis · Oct 14

  Silly says Booker mainly needs to be more efficient. He thinks Booker shot about 31-32% from three last year, the worst of his career.

• Podcast Devin Booker (reported), via Locked On Suns · Relayed report · Oct 14

  Silly paraphrases Booker telling the media that he "sucked" from three last season.

• Podcast Locked On Suns host · Analysis · Oct 14

  The hosts say Booker shot 45% from the field last year. One of them calls that "not bad."

• Podcast Locked On Suns host · Opinion · Oct 14

  A host's concern: without a clear number two of Chris Paul or Kevin Durant level, Booker is an all-star-level player rather than one who can carry a team in playoff series, yet he is paid like one.

• Podcast Locked On Suns host · Opinion · Oct 14

  The hosts agree Booker has improved a lot as a defender.

• Podcast Hayden Silly (reported), via Locked On Suns · Relayed report · Oct 14

  Silly says he has asked coach Jordan Ott (heard as "Jordan Nott") a good amount about who takes the ball in the final two minutes of the fourth quarter. He says he is still trying to get a clear-cut answer on whether it is Booker or the best available shot.

• Podcast Locked On Suns host · Opinion · Oct 14

  Silly says Booker should get the ball in any tight game, in any quarter, and take over as the go-to scorer.

• Podcast Phoenix Suns (reported), via Locked On Suns · Relayed report · Oct 14

  Garcia says the Suns told him the Bridges addition is meant to take the ball out of Booker's hands a little and ease his scoring pressure.

• Podcast Locked On Suns host · Report · Oct 14

  An unidentified speaker says resting Bridges and Booker (in what seems to be preseason) gave Brooks (heard as "Dylan Brooks") more chances to shoot. He took a lot of shots and did not shoot them especially well.

• Podcast unnamed sources (reported), via Locked On Suns · Relayed report · Oct 13

  Garcia says he was told one reason the Suns brought in Miles Bridges is that they want more ball handlers and want the ball out of Devin Booker's hands.

• Podcast Suns personnel at media day (reported), via Locked On Suns · Relayed report · Oct 13

  Voida says that at media day everyone praised Maluach's (likely Khaman Maluach) progress, attitude, effort and vocal leadership, including how he has gone to Devin Booker to ask how he can be a better center for him.

• Podcast Locked On Suns host · Analysis · Oct 13

  Voida names the first unit as including Miles Bridges, Devin Booker, Jalen Green and Brooks (heard as "Dylan Brooks"; likely Dillon Brooks). He says their combined career three-point percentage is 34.7%, below last year's 36% league average.

• Podcast Benjamin Garcia, Locked On Suns · Report · Oct 11

  Devin Booker did not play. The host says it was more of a rest thing than an injury.

• Podcast Benjamin Garcia, Locked On Suns · Relayed report · Oct 11

  The host says it has come out that Miles Bridges' ankle is fine and the Suns are being extra careful with it. He wonders aloud whether the extra caution also explains why Booker sat.

• Podcast Benjamin Garcia, Locked On Suns · Analysis · Oct 11

  The host says Booker has a history of missing eight to ten games a year with a soft-tissue injury. He warns against assuming the Suns will stay healthy.

Podcast items are our short summaries of what was said, credited to who said it; posts link to the original. Opinions and rumors are labelled as such and are not checked facts.

• Opinion Locked On Suns (show): Booker goes back to playing point guard, and Green plays off the ball, attacking the rim more than shooting threes.
  2026-03-19 · Podcast
• Opinion Benjamin Garcia: Devin Booker gets fewer foul calls in the playoffs than in the regular season.
  2026-03-18 · Podcast

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