To his comment on 12k, let’s do the math.Ĭonversatively assume he averaged 20 points his first 32 games of his career - that’s another 565 points (720 - 115 actually scored). I give thanks to all my teammates, all my coaches that have put me in a situation to be able to make this come.”īooker is the 7th youngest player ever to reach the 10k milestone.Īt a mere 15 days later than Giannis, he would have been 6th fastest but for all the lost games and lost time of the pandemic, including a four-month stop to the season in 2020. I got to be thrown in the fire, and even my vets, my teammates, passing the ball to an 18-year-old, I know that’s not easy to do and it’s not common in the NBA. So, a lot of praise to those guys for trusting a young kid and letting me play through mistakes as a youngin, because everybody doesn’t get that opportunity. “But truly grateful to be in a position at a young age to play with Coach Hornacek, Earl (Watson), Jay Triano, Igor (Kokoškov), and now Coach Monty (Williams). “I’m messing around,” Booker said with the smile of the 12k comment. On December 28, Booker entered the starting lineup and never looked back. Then injuries and underperformance boiled over. On the record, Hornacek touted the talent of Bledsoe and Knight (who were each playing 34+ minutes a night at a highly productive level), saying Booker’s turn would come. He made the comment after yet another press conference where we pressed him on why the young kid wasn’t playing more. I do remember, in November of that season while Booker was barely seeing playing time, Hornacek telling me Booker had the talent to be an All-Star sometime soon. He was the team’s 9th leading scorer, with 155 total points in 26 games played. “I should be at about 12 (thousand points) right now.”īacking up the two-headed point guard tandem of Eric Bledsoe and Brandon Knight alongside veteran Gerald Green, Booker only played 14 minutes per game his first two months in the league, averaging 6 points per game over 32 games (2 starts, 6 DNPs) despite making 59% of his threes. “If (Jeff) Hornacek put me in a little bit more,” Booker joked. That includes a rookie season where he barely played until injuries decimated the club, giving Booker a chance to show he could be a lot more than the spot-up shooter he’d been in one year at Kentucky. In six seasons since being drafted a little before his 19th birthday, Booker has become a two-time All-Star with career averages of 23 points, 4.6 assists and 3.8 rebounds per game. All of those other players are best defined as role players, while Booker is defined as a star. I feel like it’s a real milestone that I hit.”īooker was drafted 13th overall in the 2015 NBA Draft, just ahead of teammate Cameron Payne and former teammate Kelly Oubre Jr., and a few picks behind teammate Frank Kaminsky. “I think 10k is better than the five, six, seven. “Honestly, this one means a lot,” Booker said after the game. At just barely 25 years old, he became the 7th youngest ever to hit that mark. It does not store any personal data.In the first quarter of Wednesday night’s game, Phoenix Suns guard Devin Booker crossed the 10,000 point milestone of his young career. The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other.
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