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Devin Booker
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American basketball player
OverviewAI-generated
Devin Booker is a male American basketball player who competes in the National Basketball Association. Born on October 30, 1996, in Grand Rapids, he is a citizen of the United States. He began his professional career in 2015 after being drafted by the Phoenix Suns, where he plays as a Shooting Guard. Booker also played for the Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team while attending the University of Kentucky.
Standing 198 cm tall and weighing 93 kg, Booker wears jersey number 1. His father is Melvin Booker. He represented the United States in the men's tournament at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
Synthesized by Vinony from 38 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, Thesportsdb, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Russia
Discography
- BLADE RUNNER2018
- THE BOX2018
- Дрон2018
- PAINT IT BLACK2019
- Маргинальное чтиво2019
- ВЫБЕРИ ЖИЗНЬ2021
- Быть артистом2021
- DALAR2022
- в ад только перед тобой в рай только после тебя2022
- ВСЁ!2022
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 9
- Total plays
- 56
Tags
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Global incidence, prevalence, years lived with disability (YLDs), disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 371 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
· 2024 · cited 4,506x
- Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology
· 2015 · cited 4,266x
- A SARS-CoV-2 protein interaction map reveals targets for drug repurposing
· 2020 · cited 3,964x
- Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger<sup>*</sup>
· 2017 · cited 3,666x
- DNA methylation arrays as surrogate measures of cell mixture distribution
· 2012 · cited 2,989x
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Key facts
- Position
- Shooting guard
- League
- NBA
- Born
- ( 1996-10-30 ) October 30, 1996 (age 29) , Grand Rapids, Michigan , U.S.
- Listed height
- 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)
- Listed weight
- 206 lb (93 kg)
- High school
- Grandville ( Grandville, Michigan ) Moss Point ( Moss Point, Mississippi )
- College
- Kentucky (2014–2015)
- Nba draft
- 2015 : 1st round, 13th overall pick
- Drafted by
- Phoenix Suns
- Playing career
- 2015–present
- 2015 present
- Phoenix Suns
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Basketball
- Team
- Phoenix Suns
- Position
- Shooting Guard
- Nationality
- United States
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Grand Rapids
- Father
- Melvin Booker
- Occupation
- basketball player
- Educated at
- University of Kentucky
- Native language
- English language
- Sport
- basketball
- Member of team
- Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball
- Position played
- shooting guard
- Country for sport
- United States
- Mass
- 93
- Image
- Devin Booker (30362063153) (cropped).jpg
- Height
- 198
Show 10 more facts
- date of birth
- 1996-10-30
- drafted by
- Phoenix Suns
- Commons category
- Devin Booker (basketball, born 1996)
- sport number
- 1
- start of work period
- 2015-00-00
- different from
- Devin Booker
- social media followers
- 1251844
- medical condition
- COVID-19
- unmarried partner
- Kendall Jenner
- ethnic group
- African Americans
Sources (10)
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Encyclopedic overview
Devin Armani Booker (born October 30, 1996) is an American professional basketball player for the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played one season of college basketball for the Kentucky Wildcats, winning SEC Sixth Man of the Year before being drafted 13th overall by the Suns in the first round of the 2015 NBA draft. Booker is a five-time All-Star, a two-time All-NBA member, and is the Suns' all-time leading scorer. He has also won gold medals with the 2020 and 2024 U.S. Olympic teams.
The son of former basketball player Melvin Booker, Devin debuted with Phoenix at 18 years old and quickly became one of the league’s top scorers. At 20, he became the youngest player to score over 60 points in a game, finishing with a Suns franchise record 70 against the Boston Celtics. At 22 years old, he became the youngest player in NBA history with consecutive 50-point games. Booker helped lead the Suns to the NBA Finals in 2021 and earned All-NBA First Team honors in 2022 after a franchise-best 64-win season. In 2025, at 28, he became the Suns’ all-time leading scorer.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Devin Booker” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.