Hometown: Grand Rapids, Michigan and Moss Point, Mississippi. He is In the Bucks' win, Giannis Antetokounmpo led the way with a team-high 33 points (adding 15 rebounds and four assists). Subscribe to Stathead Basketball: Get your first month FREEYour All-Access Ticket to the Basketball Reference Database. UK rifle duo Will Shaner and Mary Tucker finally gets shot at Olympic gold, Your California Privacy Rights / Privacy Policy. But as Booker prepares to play in his first NBA finals with the Phoenix Suns on Tuesday, the former UK reserve guard has established himself as Kentuckys second-best active NBA alum, behind only Davis. The Nets are coming off of a 118-104 loss to the Bucks in their most recent outing on Tuesday. Booker was more efficient than Aaron Harrison, shooting 41.1% from 3-point range for the season while Harrison shot 31.6%, but Harrison did lead the team in scoring (11 points per game). Draft: 2015, Round 1, No. It was the 11th 70-point game in NBA history. Embrace that, Book. Yes, he does have a shoe deal with Nike. Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. Join us for a March Madness Webinar on Tuesday, March 7 at 8pm ET. [18] By early January, Press-Register sportswriter Creg Stephenson opined, "Sophomore guard Devin Booker has developed into one of the top players on the coast in his first season with the [Moss Point] Tigers' varsity, averaging 22.7 points per game. Boyd is second in scoring on the team at 13.3 points per game and assists at 2.5 per game. With Durant paired next to Booker and Paul, they will have a serious chance to repeat that success and make a run to the Finals once again. All logos are the trademark & property of their owners and not Sports Reference LLC. Not on the 2017 Warriors level, but definitely somewhere between that 2008 Celtics and 2010 Miami Heat level. He does seem excited about the opportunity to play alongside his new teammate Devin Booker as well. He was a bright spot for us in a difficult year. The West is ran with too many prominent guards to include Chris Paul. Data Provided By Same for John Wall or Karl-Anthony Towns. Booker also won a gold medal on the 2020 U.S. Olympic team in Tokyo. The younger Booker, the SEC Sixth Man of the Year and an All-SEC Freshman Team selection, is in the discussion as the classs best shooter and may even go in the top-10 picks. Experience: 7 Seasons. [92] Booker scored a career-highs of 38 points and 39 points on November 4[93] and 6. In other words, he's kind of poking me, like do you know you didn't start me? A history of the Sports Reference Sponsorship System. Middleton doesnt Sports Devin Booker was named as a first team All-NBA player on Tuesday. 1 Kentucky beats Montana State 8628", "Moss Point's Devin Booker gets 19 points, including 5 3-pointers, as No. He was on the fast track to becoming a superstar. [143] On February 24, for the second year in a row, Booker was named an All-Star as an injury replacement, this time to Anthony Davis. [74] On January 19, he scored 32 points in a 9794 loss to the Indiana Pacers, setting a Suns' rookie record with six three-pointers. Do you have a blog? Booker was excellent as usual with 25 points, eight rebounds, five assists and three steals. And to do that, we gotta do this together and win and share. Thats what these kids did (in 2014-15) and thats why theyre all benefitting.. [158] He finished the week averaging 37.3 points and 6.3 assists per game and was named the Week 23 Western Conference Player of the Week. He says that about everybody, though. Theyll have a good shot to win a title because of it. [178][179], Booker has his own charitable foundation called the Starting Five, which grants five nonprofit organizations $100,000 each, and plans to donate $500,000 to Phoenix charities per year for 5 years. Right, Born: While the current U.S. team has underwhelmed in exhibition games leading up to the Tokyo Games, the addition of Booker, who was occupied by the NBA finals during the pre-Olympics exhibitions, should help. [123], On February 25, he scored 20 points to help the Suns break a franchise-record 17-game losing streak with a 124121 win over the Miami Heat. So now Im looking at them like, I like itThe new owner came in and what theyre trying to do, it makes the most sense. In 21 minutes of action against the Mavericks, he scored 14 points on 6-of-7 shooting in a 11195 loss. [29] University of Missouri fans attended en masse to cheer for Booker, who averaged 30.2 points over Moss Point's three games, hoping to entice him to play for the Tigers. 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He made the SEC All-Freshman Team and won the SEC Sixth Man of the Year award. Kentucky basketball recruiting:Could Louisville's early interest give Cards a leg up over UK for Reed Sheppard? [128], On November 23, 2019, Booker almost put up a triple-double with 35 points, a career-high 12 rebounds, and 9 assists in a 10098 win over the Minnesota Timberwolves. the official stats partner of the NBA, NHL and MLB. [25], With most of Moss Point's experienced players graduating, Booker switched to point guard for his junior year. Booker will pace the team with his 91 overall rating. Booker is the son of Veronica Gutirrez, a cosmetologist,[6] and Melvin Booker, who was named the 1994 Big Eight Player of the Year while a point guard at Missouri. As for Booker and the Suns, I know a super-team when I see one and this is definitely one. The NBA has only witnessed six players score 70 points or more in a game, and Booker is one of them, joining Bryant, Wilt Chamberlain, Elgin Baylor, David Thompson, and David Robinson. [147] On June 3, Booker recorded a playoff career-high 47 points, along with 11 rebounds to lead the Suns to a 113100 series-clinching victory over the Lakers in Game 6 to advance to the Conference Semifinals against the Denver Nuggets. Williams finished the game with his team's second-most 22 points behind Isaiah Joe's 28, shot a stellar 8-of-14, got six rebounds, four assists and a steal off [95] He had a second straight 39-point effort in a two days later[96] to become the youngest player in NBA history to record consecutive games of 39 or more points in the regular season. [112], On March 2, in a 124116 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder, Booker scored 39 points and at 21 years, 123 days old, he became the third-youngest player in NBA history to reach 4,000 career points, again behind LeBron James and Kevin Durant. [148] In Game 4 against the Denver Nuggets in the Conference Semifinals, Booker dropped 34 points and 11 rebounds in a 125118 victory, leading the Suns to a 40 series sweep over the Nuggets for their first Western Conference Finals appearance since 2010. "[19], In the Laurel MLK Shootout, Booker scored 54 points against Northeast Jones High School, falling nine shy of Litterial Green's Moss Point record for most points in a game, set in 1988. [136][137] He returned to action on February 1, reaching 700 career three-point shots, including a game-winning 3-pointer with 1.5 seconds left in the game, to win 109108 over the Dallas Mavericks. The opening tip is at 7:00 PM ET.The Bulls are coming off of a 104-98 loss to the Raptors in their last outing on Tuesday. [132] Booker was named an All-Star on February 13, 2020 as an injury replacement after Damian Lillard suffered an groin strain injury a day earlier. Devin Booker weighs 250 lbs After playing for the freshman, junior varsity and varsity basketball teams during his freshman year at Grandville High School in Michigan, Booker moved to Mississippi to live with his father after the latter's retirement from professional basketball. 2 nationally. Thats quite the jump from the freshman guard who did not start a single game in Kentucky. With a loaded roster, Calipari instituted a platoon system early in the 2014-15 season, making five-for-five substitutions around media timeouts. But you can do all that here., Kentucky basketball:On the first day of NIL era, UK athletes begin cashing in with policy finalized. Type name to select an option. No-Trouble Returns upon All [9], Booker was limited to just 14 points, with no field goals made in the second half, in a 5755 win over Gautier High School in the opening round of the Division 7-5A tournament. Watch our How-To Videos to Become a Stathead, Subscribe to Stathead and get access to more data than you can imagine. Towns was the best player on a UK team that won its first 38 games. [72], "We thought he had a lot of potential. [22] Wayne County focused their defense on Booker, holding him to a single, first-quarter free throw, en route to a 5737 victory that ended Moss Point's season. [51] Two games later, he scored a season-high 45 points in a 7867 loss to Alabama's McGill-Toolen Catholic High School in the Melvin Booker Shootout. Just four days after winning the NCAA title in Madison Square Garden in New York, Adolph Rupps Wildcats beat Louisville in the first game in the college bracket of the Olympic Trials. Thats for you guys and everybody else. Javascript is required for the selection of a player. Thats my main focus.. Booker, at age 20, became the youngest player to score 70 (and 60) points in a game. Booker was already considered an elite shooter when he arrived at Kentucky, but the rest of his game was a work in progress. Durant and Booker have had experience playing together, as they were both a part of Team USA two summers ago, winning a Gold Medal at the Tokyo Olympics. October 30, Team for the 2017 Rising Stars Challenge,[98] and was invited to take part in the 2017 Taco Bell Skills Challenge. [103] The Suns' previous scoring record was held by Tom Chambers with 60 points on March 24, 1990. [106] Over the Suns' first 17 games of the season, Booker had seven 30-point games. WebDevin Booker SG #1. The presence of Booker, Adebayo and Johnson could be a good omen as well as every U.S. Olympic team that has included a current or former Kentucky player has won the gold medal. Devin Booker, Jrue Holiday and Khris Middleton will switch from NBA Finals adversaries to Team USA teammates in the span of a few hours. Devin Booker has made at least $98,388,565 playing professional basketball. I knew that coming here. and Devin Booker (Chicago, Ill.) were named to the 2022 SIAC All-Conference First and Second team respectively, announced by the conference on Saturday. However, based on Durants recent comments at All-Star weekend. Noah Horford Brewer. But I'll be honest, we had no idea he'd be able to do this much, this quickly. WebDevin Booker. 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Email Jon Hale atjahale@courier-journal.com; Follow him on Twitter at@JonHale_CJ. As the Suns prepare their roster to make a run at the Finals, they could look to make more additions. [57], In the 2014 Alabama-Mississippi All-Star game, Booker had a game-high 31 points and was named MVP of the Mississippi team, but his team lost to the Alabama team 9083. [8] At the South Mississippi All-Star event in May, Booker scored 23 points to lead his East team over the West team 10170 in the underclassman game. [9] Booker was born and raised in Grand Rapids, living with his mother, who is reportedly of Mexican and Puerto Rican descent[10][6] while his African-American father pursued a professional basketball career internationally. [130] In addition, his streak from December 28 until January 7 made him the only player since the 198384 NBA season to record six straight performances of 30+ points and 6+ assists with 47% shooting efficiency. On August 11, he scored 35 points, breaking a franchise record set by Walter Davis for the most games of 30+ points scored with the team, as well as get 9 rebounds and 7 assists in a 130117 win over the Philadelphia 76ers. The Harrison twins struggled for much of their freshman season but played key roles in Kentuckys dramatic run to the national championship game. That's what Cal preached to us. Kentucky came up short in that game, 53-49, but its five starters (Ralph Beard, Alex Groza, Wah Wah Jones, Cliff Barker and Ken Rollins) were still named to the U.S. team for the 1948 London games. Choose Player. [118][119] He recovered in time for the Suns' season opener on October 17, scoring 35 points in a 121100 victory over the Dallas Mavericks. [11][12] He visited his father regularly during the summer. LEXINGTON There will be a distinct Kentucky flavor to the U.S. mens basketball team taking the court for the Tokyo Olympics. WebCollege: Kentucky. As Phoenix prepares to attempt another run to the Finals, Durant should prove to be as good of an addition as they could have hoped for. [8][39], By the end of Moss Point's season, Booker held scholarship offers from Duke, North Carolina, Florida, Michigan, Michigan State, Missouri, and Mississippi State. A super-team is a super-team whether it was drafted or traded for or acquired through free agency. We want guys here that are saying, I want to get better. When what would have been Bookers UK senior day came in 2018, he sent a text to his former coach. The Phoenix Suns made the splash of the trade deadline this year when they added Kevin Durant. [15], After playing for the freshman, junior varsity and varsity basketball teams during his freshman year at Grandville High School in Michigan, Booker moved to Mississippi to live with his father after the latter's retirement from professional basketball. February 26, 2023. All rights reserved. All rights reserved. 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