Devin Booker Net Worth and Successful Basketball Player

Devin Armani Booker is known as an American professional basketball player for the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Following a single season of college football with the Kentucky Wildcats, Booker was chosen as the 13th overall decision by the Suns in the first round of the 2015 NBA draft.

He finished with a Suns franchise-record 70 points against the Boston Celtics in 2017, making history as the youngest player to score 60 or more points in a game at the age of 20. Booker made NBA history in 2019 by becoming the youngest player to record multiple 50-point games at the age of 22.

Devin, a four-time All-Star and two-time All-NBA member. In 2021, he helped the Suns in making it to the NBA Finals. He was a member of the All-NBA First Team the next season and helped guide the Suns to a franchise-high 64 victories. Booker was a member of the U.S. Olympic team in Tokyo in 2020 and won a gold medal.

Devin Booker Net Worth 2024

Devin Booker’s net worth is estimated to be $60 million as of 2024. In his eight years as a professional, Booker is said to have made over $130 million in NBA earnings alone. He will get $33 million this season after agreeing to a huge contract extension last year.

Booker earns an important income from endorsement contracts in addition to his pay. According to sources, he receives about $8 million in sponsorship earnings annually. Devin and the Phoenix Suns agreed to a five-year, $158 million contract deal in 2019. His yearly NBA pay increased from a little over $3 million to slightly over $30 million due to the contract.

Current Contract:

The current contract of Devin Booker is as follows:

Biography and Personal Life

The grandfather of Booker's mother is Mexican. Devin is the only child of former professional basketball player Melvin Booker. In 2020, Booker received the honour as a Special Olympics worldwide ambassador due to his support for his younger half-sister, who suffers from microdeletion syndrome, a genetic chromosomal condition.

Booker was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1996. In the NBA, he plays shooting guard. He is a lifetime supporter of the Detroit Red Wings and Detroit Lions, often wearing items from these teams.

Booker plans to donate $500,000 to Phoenix nonprofits for five years through his charitable foundation, the Starting Five, which awards grants of $100,000 each to five nonprofit groups. For $3.5 million in 2019, Booker purchased a 5,590-square-foot home in Paradise Valley, Arizona.

Early Life

Booker's parents are point guard Melvin Booker, who won Missouri's 1994 Big Eight Player of the Year, and cosmetologist Veronica Gutierrez. In Grand Rapids, Michigan, the hometown of Gutierrez, his father played basketball for the Grand Rapids Hoops of the Continental Basketball Association. His parents first got together in this way.

Booker grew up in Grand Rapids with his mother, he is apparently of Mexican and Puerto Rican history, while his father, an African American, travelled the world to play professional basketball. He visited his father multiple times during the course of the summer.

He played one-on-one basketball with Danilo Gallinari, his father's Olympia Milano teammate at the time when he was twelve years old and visiting him in Milan.

During his senior year with 2,263 points, Booker set a new record for Moss Point's all-time career scoring leader with an average of 30.9 points per game. During his three years at Moss Point, he earned 2,518 points at the end of the season.

Professional career

• Phoenix Suns (2015–present)

Booker was chosen by the Phoenix Suns as the thirteenth overall choice in the 2015 NBA draft on June 25, 2015.

• 2015–16 season: All-Rookie honors

After signing a rookie scale contract with the Suns on July 13, Booker averaged 15.3 points, 4.9 rebounds, and 1.7 assists per game in seven Summer League games. Two days before turning 19 years old, he made his NBA debut during the Suns opening game of the season against the Dallas Mavericks. He scored 14 points on 6-of-7 shooting in 21 minutes of action against the Mavericks in a 111-95 loss.

• 2016–17 season: Improving as a sophomore

Booker played two games for the Suns in the Las Vegas Summer League, was invited to be a member of the select team that trains against Team USA in preparation for the Summer Olympics, and worked out with head coach Earl Watson and former NBA star Baron Davis at UCLA over the offseason.

• 2017–18 season: Injuries

With 18 points in a 98-92 beat to the Brooklyn Nets in 2017, Booker made history as the fourth-youngest player in NBA history to score 3,000 points, after LeBron James, Kevin Durant, and Carmelo Anthony. A 36-point effort on November 13 his 26th 30-point game of the year tied Steve Nash for the 15th-most in team history.

• Collegiate Career

Booker had countless scholarship offers while still in high school from universities including Duke, UNC, Michigan, Florida, Kentucky, and Missouri. Ultimately, he decided on Kentucky, where he spent a season as a member of the Wildcats before filing to enter the NBA draft. Throughout his 38 games that season, Booker scored 10 points per night.

Honors and Awards of Devin Booker:

• 1 All-Rookie Team
• 3 NBA Player of the Month
• 9 NBA Player of the Week
• 2 All-NBA
• 1 Olympic Gold Medal
• 4 NBA All-Star

Frequently Asked Questions

Q. What year did Devin Booker enter the NBA?

Following his draft selection by the Phoenix Suns in 2015, Devin Booker began playing basketball professionally in the National Basketball Association.

Q. Is Devin Booker an NBA Champion?

No, Devin Booker still hasn't taken home the first NBA title. He was a part of his team's 2021 NBA Finals run, which ended in a loss to the Milwaukee Bucks.

Q. Is Devin Booker single?

Devin Booker and Kendall Jenner have been dating since 2020. Jenner is the 818 Tequila creator.