Name: Devin Booker

Position: Guard

Sport: Basketball

Event(s): Men's 5x5

Height: 6-5

DOB: 10/30/1996

Birthplace: Grand Rapids, Mich.

Hometown: Grand Rapids, Mich.

College: University of Kentucky

Team/Club: Phoenix Suns

Coach(es): Monty Williams

Olympic Experience

• One-time Olympian (2020); one-time Olympic medalist (1 gold)
• Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, gold

Other Career Highlights

• Named a finalist for the 2021 USA National Team and U.S. Olympic Men's Basketball Team on March 11, 2021
• Two-time NBA All-Star
• Member of USA Basketball’s 2018-20 Men’s National Team
• Named to the 2019-20 NBA All-Seeding Games first team and was runner-up for NBA Player of the Seeding Games (‘Bubble MVP’) behind Damian Lillard
• 2019 3-point Contest Champion at NBA All-Star
• 2015-16 NBA All-Rookie first team

Personal: Son of Veronica Gutierrez and Melvin Booker...Has a brother, Davon Wade, and a sister, Mya Powell...Full name is Devin Armani Booker... Drafted in the first round, No. 13 overall, of the 2015 NBA Draft by the Phoenix Suns after playing one season at Kentucky... Named 2014-15 SEC Sixth Man of the Year, All-SEC second team and All-SEC Freshman Team honors…Served as an honorary coach for the NBA Cares Special Olympics Unified Basketball Game at NBA All-Star 2016…Father, Melvin, played in 32 NBA games with Houston, Denver and Golden State over the 1995-96 and 1996-97 seasons and also played professionally in the CBA and in Italy, Turkey and Russia.

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