Devin Booker — Career Stats and Achievements
Devin Booker’s rise from teenage lottery pick to the statistical heartbeat of the Phoenix Suns is best told through numbers. Yet each column on the stat sheet doubles as a waypoint on a decade-long climb: a 19-year-old rookie nudging double figures, a 28-year-old franchise icon eclipsing Walter Davis to become the club’s all-time leading scorer in February 2025. Along the way he has collected four All-Star nods, two All-NBA selections and a place in league lore as the youngest player ever to drop 70 in a single game. The sections below break down Book’s production season by season, spotlight his efficiency trends and revisit his biggest postseason explosions.
NBA Career Statistics (Season-by-Season)
Booker has appeared in 673 regular-season games through 2024-25, logging more than 23,000 minutes and averaging 24.4 points, 5.2 assists and 4.0 rebounds on 46.4 percent shooting overall. Those figures mask a steady upward curve:
- 2015-16 (Rookie): 13.8 PPG in 27.7 minutes, flashing advanced footwork but shooting only 42.3 percent.
- 2016-17: First 20-point season (22.1 PPG) and the 70-point detonation in Boston that announced him to the league.
- 2017-18 to 2019-20: Consistent mid-20s scoring while adding playmaking; assists climbed from 3.4 to 6.5 per game by Year 5.
- 2020-21: Integral to Phoenix’s Finals run, maintaining 25.6 PPG on 48.4 percent from the field.
- 2021-22: Career-best 26.8 PPG, first-team All-NBA, fourth in MVP voting, and his first 50-win season as a No. 1 option.
- 2022-23: Peak volume—27.8 PPG—despite a groin strain that limited him to 53 games.
- 2023-24: Transitioned to more on-ball work (career-high 6.9 APG) while still pouring in 27.1 PPG.
- 2024-25: With Bradley Beal healthy only sporadically, Booker balanced scoring (25.6 PPG) and career-high facilitation (7.1 APG) over 75 games.
Across that span Booker’s year-to-year usage never dipped below 27 percent, underscoring how quickly he stepped into a primary-creator burden.
Points Per Game
Booker’s scoring arc is a master class in incremental gains rather than one-season leaps. His rookie 13.8 PPG nearly doubled to 22.1 in Year 2, but every ensuing campaign fell between 24.9 and 27.8, proof of a floor that rose as his shot diet diversified. Efficiency followed: he began at a league-average 48.0 effective FG%, climbed above 52 percent by 2019-20, and has held that range despite taking over seven threes nightly the past two years. The statistical cherry-on-top remains March 24, 2017: 70 points on 21-for-40 shooting—just the sixth 70-plus game in NBA history and still the Suns’ single-game record.
Assists, Rebounds, FG%, 3PT%
- Playmaking: Opening as a pure shooting guard, Booker hovered near 2.6 APG as a rookie. By 2018-19 he cracked 6.8, showing advanced pick-and-roll vision. In 2024-25 he handed out 7.1 dimes—11th-best league-wide—while trimming turnovers to 2.9, his lowest in five seasons.
- Rebounding: Never a glass-eater, he nonetheless improved positional rebounding from 2.5 to an annual four-plus as his body filled out; his career average sits at 4.0 RPG with a peak of 5.0 in 2021-22.
- Shooting Splits: Booker’s overall FG% rose from 42.3 to a plateau between 46 and 49 percent thanks to a deadly pull-up two (he converts 52 percent of mid-range attempts over the last five campaigns). From deep he’s streaky—career 35.4 percent—but hit a personal best 38.3 percent during the 64-win 2021-22 season. His free-throw accuracy, however, is elite: 87.3 percent career, cresting at 91.9 percent in 2019-20 and 89.4 percent this past year.
Efficiency milestones have come in lock-step with advanced metrics: Booker’s true-shooting percentage has hovered near 59 percent since 2020, well above the league average of ~57.
Playoff Stats and Highlights
Booker’s postseason résumé totals 47 games with averages of 28.0 PPG, 5.3 APG and 5.1 RPG on nearly 49 percent shooting — all upticks from his regular-season numbers and a rarity for first-option scorers. Signature series include:
- 2021 Western Conference Finals (vs. LAC): Recorded the first 40-point triple-double in Suns postseason history (40-13-11 in Game 1) and averaged 27.3 PPG en route to the franchise’s first Finals berth since 1993.
- 2023 First Round (vs. LAL): Exploded for 45, 39 and 47 in consecutive games, finishing the series at 33.7 PPG on 58.5 percent shooting, one of the five most efficient 30-plus series ever by a guard (min. 10 attempts).
- 2024 Play-In and Round 1: In a short four-game exit he still managed 27.5 PPG and 6.0 APG, proving his floor even against swarming schemes.
Booker’s playoff shot profile mirrors the regular season—heavy mid-range usage—but his free-throw rate spikes (8.1 attempts per game in the postseason versus 6.0 regular season), reflecting a more forceful rim emphasis when possessions shrink.
Accolades at a Glance
| Achievement | Year(s) | Note |
| All-Rookie First Team | 2016 | Fourth in ROY voting |
| All-Star Selections | 2020, 2022, 2023*, 2024 | *Voted in 2021 but injured |
| All-NBA First Team | 2022 | Led Suns to a franchise-record 64 wins |
| All-NBA Third Team | 2024 | Career-high 6.9 APG |
| Suns All-Time Scoring Leader | 2025 | Surpassed Walter Davis at 15,678 points |
| 70-Point Game (Youngest to 70) | 2017 | Sixth 70-point game in NBA history |
All-Star Selections and Awards
NBA All-Star Appearances
Booker’s résumé lists four official trips to the NBA All-Star Game (2020, 2022, 2023, 2024)—each one marking a different stage of his evolution from precocious shot-maker to full-fledged offensive hub.
- 2020 (Chicago): Voted in as an injury replacement for Damian Lillard, 23-year-old Booker used the weekend to showcase improved playmaking, logging five assists in just 19 minutes and flashing the off-the-bounce three that would soon become his playoff calling card.
- 2022 (Cleveland): Arrived as the centerpiece of a 64-win Suns juggernaut and finished with 20 points on 8-of-15 shooting, prompting LeBron James to single him out afterward as “one of the toughest covers in our game.”
- 2023 (Salt Lake City): Despite early-season oblique trouble, coaches again tapped Booker as a reserve, recognizing the efficiency jump that saw him average 27.8 PPG on 61 percent true shooting before the break.
- 2024 (Indianapolis): His fourth nod tied luminaries like Charles Barkley and Shawn Marion for the most All-Star selections by a Suns guard; Booker tallied 26 points and seven assists in a game otherwise remembered for Stephen Curry’s half-court barrage.
The run of honors halted in 2025, when he was widely viewed as a “snub” after posting 25-7-4 through January; pundits blamed Phoenix’s middling record and voter fatigue, and Booker himself quipped, “I’ll take the week off and shoot a million jumpers instead.”
Olympic Gold Medal (Team USA – Tokyo 2020)
Because of the pandemic delay, Booker boarded a charter to Tokyo less than 48 hours after the 2021 NBA Finals ended. He embraced a supersub role behind starters Kevin Durant and Jrue Holiday, logging 20.6 minutes, 9.3 points and 3.2 rebounds per game while leading Team USA in free-throw percentage (92.9 %). His breakout came in the semifinal against Australia: 20 points on 7-for-10 shooting, including a personal 8-0 run that flipped an eight-point deficit late in the second quarter. In the gold-medal rematch with France he scored only two but hounded Evan Fournier into 0-for-4 second-half shooting, preserving an 87-82 victory and securing Booker’s first senior-level international title.
Player of the Week/Month Awards
The NBA’s short-cycle awards cabinet is where Booker’s consistency really shines:
- Historic first: November 2021 was his inaugural Month trophy, powered by a franchise-record 18-game winning streak that sent Phoenix rocketing to the West’s No. 1 seed.
- Player of the Week: Phoenix social-media accounts trumpet every new plaque with “BOOK IT,” a hashtag they dusted off for the 10th time after his 44-point, 11-assist masterpiece versus Denver on Nov. 3 2024.
- Recent examples: Week 14 of 2023-24 (30.3 PPG on 56 % shooting) and Week 5 (back-to-back 35-point outings) showed how quickly he can own a seven-day span.
- Player of the Month: Booker’s January 2024 tear—30.0 PPG, 11–5 Suns record—earned his third career Month honor, breaking the franchise tie he once shared with Steve Nash and Amar’e Stoudemire.
Career Highlights and Notable Performances
70-Point Game vs Celtics
On March 24 2017 a 20-year-old Booker tore through Boston for 70 points, becoming the youngest player ever to hit that plateau and the first since Kobe Bryant’s 81-point night to eclipse 70. He went 21-for-40 from the field and 24-for-26 at the line, piling up 51 points after halftime and drawing chants of “M-V-P” from a stunned TD Garden crowd even as Phoenix fell 130-120. The box score was gaudy; the subtext was louder: here was a teenager capable of bending NBA defenses like tinfoil.
NBA Finals 2021 Run with Suns
Phoenix’s 2021 postseason sprint began with Booker’s 47-point close-out of the defending-champ Lakers, continued through a 40-point triple-double in Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals, and culminated in the franchise’s first Finals appearance since 1993. Against Milwaukee he averaged 28.2 points, 4.0 rebounds and 3.5 assists, including back-to-back 40-point eruptions in Games 4 and 5 that evoked vintage Jordan-Kerr catch-and-pivot mid-range artistry. Despite dropping the series in six, Booker left with the highest scoring average for a Finals debut since Rick Barry in 1967 and a national acknowledgement that Phoenix’s window was officially open.
Key Playoff Moments
- 2023 First Round vs. Lakers: Booker answered LeBron James’ challenge by posting 33.7 PPG on 58.5 % shooting, the fifth-most efficient 30-plus series ever by a guard (min. 10 FGA). His 47 in Game 5 featured 25 straight Phoenix points over a seven-minute span.
- 2022 Game 6 vs. Pelicans: Returned from a hamstring tweak to bury the go-ahead corner three with 56 seconds left, sealing the series and flashing a Kobe-tattoo forearm at the New Orleans bench.
- 2024 Play-In Thriller vs. Sacramento: Facing elimination, Booker logged 38-10-7 with a plus-26 in 40 minutes, outdueling De’Aaron Fox and validating his reputation as the league’s pre-eminent “valley-of-the-sun” closer.
- Cumulative Playoff Sheet: Through 47 playoff games he owns a 28.0 PPG average, a rare leap over his regular-season output and proof that the brighter the lights, the sharper his focus.