Devin Booker is hungry and ready to go for his 10th NBA season with Suns

Phoenix Suns star guard Devin Booker meets with the media at Suns media day ahead of the 2024-25 season.

Booker will be entering his 10th season in the NBA, as he still looks to lead the Phoenix Suns to their first-ever NBA championship as the face of the franchise.

Last season, Booker averaged 27.1 points on 49.2/36.4/88.6 shooting splits, a career-best 6.9 assists and 4.5 rebounds across 68 games for the 49-33 Suns and was named to the All-NBA Third Team. His 27.1 points per game ranked sixth in the NBA and his 6.9 assists were 11th.

Phoenix was ultimately swept in the first round of the playoffs by the Minnesota Timberwolves, as Booker struggled in Games 1-3, but had a playoff career-high 49 points in the season-ending Game 4.

Over the summer, Booker played a pivotal role in Team USA's fifth-straight Olympic gold medal in the 2024 Paris Olympics in August.

Booker led the U.S. with a +130 plus/minus through the team’s six Olympic games and five exhibition matchups. He had a team-high 18 points in the U.S.’s quarterfinals win over Brazil and 15 points, including a team-high 13 in the first half, in the gold medal win over France, starting alongside four MVPs in Stephen Curry, LeBron James, Kevin Durant and Joel Embiid. Throughout the Olympics, Booker averaged 11.7 points on 56.8% shooting from the field, 56.5% shooting from 3 and 3.3 assists in 22 minutes per game.

Team USA coach Steve Kerr called Booker the “unsung MVP” of the team, while multiple media members referred to Booker as an “unsung hero" because of his ability to do all the little things, including picking up players full court, fighting through screens, being a floor spacer offensively, making the right pass as needed, crashing the offensive glass and much more. Overall, fans were very appreciative of what Booker brought to the table.

Can Booker translate this experience in the Olympics into a positive season for the Suns?

He discusses this, the passing of Al McCoy, the Suns honoring McCoy with a jersey patch, Tyus Jones, using last season as motivation, his early impressions of new coach Mike Budenholzer, a story of Al McCoy, learning from Kevin Durant about being a veteran going into Year 10, the Phoenix natives on team (Osso Ighodaro and TyTy Washington), the difference between this year and last year, if the Book 2s are in the works and  Diana Taurasi's impact on him.

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