NBA Season Preview 2022-23: Every team’s current longest-tenured player
By Luke Anton
Phoenix Suns: Devin Booker, 7 years
It’s crazy to think that Devin Booker has already been in the league for seven years, but that’s the truth. Take a look at some of the names on the 2015-16 Suns roster from his rookie season: Lorenzo Brown, Bryce Cotton, Archie Goodwin, Cory Jefferson, John Jenkins, Orlando Johnson, Phil Pressey and Alan Williams. And shoutout to Chase Budinger and Sonny Weems.
The Suns won an average of 22 games over the first four years of Booker’s career as the punching bag of the Western Conference. However, last season the Suns won the most regular-season games in the NBA and a franchise-record 64 games, which was the exact same amount of games the team won during the three-year stretch from the 2016-17 season to the end of 2018-19.
Booker signed a four-year, $224 million supermax extension this summer to stay in the desert.