Devin Booker’s future in Phoenix keeps coming back to the same point: the Suns and their franchise star still appear locked in together.
Booker has been the face of the team since Phoenix took him 13th overall in the 2015 NBA Draft, and over the last decade he’s established himself as the Suns’ best player and one of the greatest names in franchise history. The high point came in 2021, when the Suns were just two wins from a championship before the Milwaukee Bucks got away with the victory.
Even now, in the 2026-27 NBA season, Booker is still carrying his end of the bargain. Phoenix remains a middle-of-the-road team, but Booker has kept producing at a star level, averaging 25.1 points and 4.8 assists per game this season.
The problem is the bigger picture. The Suns want to win a title, but they may not have the kind of contender-level roster they had in the early 2020s, when Booker was flanked by Mikal Bridges, Deandre Ayton, and Chris Paul. That gap has fueled plenty of talk about whether Booker could eventually want out and chase a new challenge somewhere else.
For now, though, the reporting points in the opposite direction. As Michael Scotto said on SiriusXM NBA Radio, "From every indication that I've got, the Phoenix Suns want to keep Devin Booker, and they want to continue to build around him.
For Devin Booker, he wants to be a Sun for life, ideally... It's about trying to make the team better around him,"
That leaves Phoenix in a difficult but familiar spot: trying to keep Booker happy, keep building, and prove they can still compete with anyone.
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The bigger picture for the Suns is even more straightforward: owner Mat Ishbia has made it clear Booker remains the face of the team and the player expected to guide the next push toward a championship. Individual markers on the leagues scoring list only reinforce how long Booker has been doing this at a high level, and how central he still is to whatever comes next in Phoenix. [Read more 🡒]
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