“I have ‘Banned’ 1s currently, after I made it to the League,” Book continues. Haven, a 150-pound Cane Corso, is hilariously running around the studio with the kind of joy only a very good boy can bring. That would’ve been around the time he was playing in some Huarache 2K4s, flying under the national radar. So when Book peacefully rolls up to the studio with his dog Haven, he parks it on a couch, digs in to some lunch and starts talking about the 1s he wanted as a kid at Moss Point HS in Moss Point, MS. They know an all-time great when they see one.īut we’re still not seeing 1s. That’s why the best players in the League mess with him so heavy. He’s a modern throwback, a young man who respects the past and lets it inform his own future. Just more moments of him jumping out of his vintage cars, trading out his Jordans and his Chuck Taylors for his Kobes, and dominating the NBA with a style that’s closer to Alex English and Mark Aguirre than to the kids coming up today. And you’re welcome.) With deadeye three-point accuracy and the capability to run pick and roll as the ballhandler or the screener, it’s just refinement for Book now. (Please type “Devin Booker and Kyle Wiltjer” into YouTube.
But that’s just a new layer of a skill he’s always had. Teammates have noted how much time he’s spent in the weight room adding muscle to get more power on his head-down drives to the rim. Then off the bounce, with the rock in his right hand, he can fade to his strong-side shoulder and easily command a shot that sweetly scrapes the sky. Middie’s auto, a product of fluttering feet out of the triple threat that instantly create space to get clean looks. He’s not a Kobe clone, but rather a disciple of Kobe and his footwork, of Rip Hamilton and his midrange shot, of Michael Jordan and his drive, of his father Melvin and his refusal to take it easy, and of countless others who have made the 24-year-old an unparalleled player and person. He’s a blend of the years gone by, even the years that he wasn’t alive to see. “Devin Booker had everything to do with why I came to Phoenix,” Paul told ESPN months before the Suns made the ’21 Finals.ĬP knew that Book is Book. And then there’s Chris Paul, one of the best point guards and basketball historians the game has ever known. Jrue Holiday and Draymond Green, two basketball geniuses, have praised him. LeBron James and Kevin Durant, two HoFers, have long been saying how nice he is. He’s one of the few who appreciates good hoops like that, one of the even fewer who yearns for real and true competition, in all of its pain, ugliness and ultimate glory. Just as rare as the ’85 “Kentuckys” is the man who will be wearing them when they get off the plane at Hollywood Burbank Airport. Those were the highs that not many will clock basketball being played correctly at a supreme level on a global stage. It leaves room for the snapping ball movement that he would sometimes get to cap off or sometimes get to contribute to. It still leaves room for Book strapping up on defense, sliding his feet, laced in his blue and red Kobe 5 PEs, on-ball and in his weakside rotation requirements. But that still leaves room for the details. The highs obviously include the numero uno world ranking. But the men wearing the red, white and blue were never worried. The lows included a panic that struck American fans and media following a first game loss to France. He and the squad captured the Gold medal after a two-week odyssey filled with highs and lows.
Get your copy of KICKS 24 featuring Devin Booker NOW!īook was in Tokyo for the 2020 (’21?) Olympics. The sneakers, a physical time machine that lead with footprints to the moments well before SLAM was around or Booker was born or the public’s general love for footwear, are getting on a plane. The kicks got sent to the desert from Tokyo, Japan. The absolutely insanely rare “Kentucky” Air Jordan 1s from 1985 that Devin Booker is supposed to bless us with aren’t in L.A. Let’s have some thunderous notes surge in the blue sky. “Voice of the Heroes” blasts out of a car window on Cahuenga Boulevard. Conversations run their course without any rush. Traffic is actually skipping along nicely.
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