Devin Booker
Devin Booker went from Moss Point, Mississippi and one season at Kentucky to the Phoenix Suns, a 70-point night in Boston, two Olympic golds and a $145 million extension.
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Grand Rapids, Grandville and Moss Point High School
Devin Armani Booker was born on October 30, 1996, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. His mother is Veronica Gutierrez. His father, Melvin Booker, played in the NBA. The NBA's own biography of him still lists two hometowns, Grand Rapids and Moss Point, Mississippi, and that split explains how he grew up.
He spent his freshman year of high school at Grandville High School, outside Grand Rapids, then moved south to Moss Point High School for his last three years. He left Moss Point as the school's all-time leading scorer with 2,518 points, and he averaged 30.9 points a game as a senior, according to the University of Kentucky's roster page.
One Season Off the Bench at Kentucky
Booker played one college season, 2014-15, at Kentucky. He did not start. Across 38 games he averaged 10.0 points, 2.0 rebounds and 1.1 assists and made 58 three-pointers. The Southeastern Conference named him its Sixth Man of the Year, and he made the All-SEC Second Team and the All-SEC Freshman Team.
That was enough to leave. In the 2015 NBA Draft the Phoenix Suns took him 13th overall in the first round. He was 18. The next season he was named to the NBA All-Rookie First Team.
Seventy Points at TD Garden, March 24, 2017
In his second season Booker scored 70 points against the Boston Celtics at TD Garden on March 24, 2017. He was 20. The Associated Press recap counted him as the sixth player in NBA history to reach 70 in a game, after Wilt Chamberlain, Kobe Bryant, David Thompson, David Robinson and Elgin Baylor.
Phoenix still lost, 130-120. By the end of the game the Boston crowd was cheering him. "It's a night I'm going to remember the rest of my life," Booker said afterward, according to the AP.
A year later he won the three-point contest at the 2018 All-Star weekend.
The 2021 NBA Finals With Chris Paul
In 2021 Booker and Chris Paul led the Suns to the NBA Finals, the franchise's first trip there since 1993. Booker was an All-Star in 2020 and 2021, though he did not play in the 2021 game.
The 2021-22 season was his best by the league's measures. He was named to the All-NBA First Team, finished fourth in MVP voting and made his third straight All-Star team. He made a fourth All-Star team in 2024, along with the All-NBA Third Team.
The Supermax Extension of July 2022
The All-NBA selection in 2022 made Booker eligible for a supermax contract. ESPN reported on July 1, 2022 that he had agreed to a four-year, $224 million extension running from 2024-25 through 2027-28, which brought the deal to six years and $295 million in total. Sports Illustrated later described the same contract as four years and $220 million. The two reports do not match, and the exact total of that deal is not settled by the sources here.
Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024
Booker has two Olympic gold medals with the United States, from the Tokyo Games and from Paris in 2024. Jrue Holiday was his teammate on both teams. In Paris he averaged 11.7 points, 2.7 rebounds and 3.3 assists and made 13 of 23 three-point attempts, according to Sports Illustrated. In the gold medal game against France he scored 13 points in the first half.
A Two-Year, $145 Million Deal Through 2029-30
In July 2025 Phoenix extended Booker again. The contract history of that week is not clean. On July 6, 2025, Duane Rankin of The Arizona Republic reported a two-year, $150 million extension starting in 2028-29. The report was then pulled, with no official word from the team, Sports Illustrated noted.
The Suns confirmed the signing on July 10, 2025. NBA.com and Arizona's Family both reported the figure as two years and $145 million, running through the 2029-30 season. Arizona's Family described it as the highest annual extension in NBA history and put his total remaining contract with Phoenix at five years and $316 million.
By then Booker was Phoenix's career leader in total points, with 16,452, and in three-pointers, with 1,424, according to NBA.com. His career scoring average of 24.4 points was third in franchise history. He had averaged at least 22 points for nine straight seasons and posted 25.6 points and 7.1 assists in 2024-25. If he plays out the new deal, he will have spent 15 seasons with the team that drafted him.
Salary, Sponsors and COCO5
No net worth figure for Booker appears in the sources used for this article, and this article does not compute one, because his rookie-scale salary and his endorsement income are not broken out in any of them. What can be stated is his recent earnings. Forbes lists him at $68.1 million in its 2026 ranking of the highest-paid NBA players, as of October 20, 2026, without separating salary from off-court income.
Forbes names his sponsors as 2K Sports, Activision, Chevrolet, McDonald's and Nike. He was the cover athlete of NBA 2K23 and won the first NBA 2K Players Tournament in 2020. Forbes also lists investments in Mitchell & Ness and a Major League Pickleball franchise, and a co-ownership stake in COCO5, a coconut water brand. He is a Special Olympics Global Ambassador. No marriage or children are reported in the sources used here.
Sources
- Devin Booker Biography - ESPN
- Devin Booker | Guard | Phoenix Suns | NBA.com
- Devin Booker - UK Athletics
- Phoenix Suns vs. Boston Celtics Live Score and Stats - March 24, 2017 Gametracker - CBS Sports
- Suns' Booker scores 70, but Celtics prevail
- Phoenix Suns, Devin Booker agree on 4-year, $224 million supermax extension - ESPN
- Devin Booker | Team USA
- Suns Star Praised by Olympic Teammate
- Suns Insider Backtracks Devin Booker Contract Report
- Devin Booker inks reported 2-year extension with Suns
- Devin Booker agrees to historic extension with the Phoenix Suns
- Devin Booker
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