{"id":168374,"date":"2025-09-25T15:23:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T15:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/168374\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T15:23:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T15:23:13","slug":"devin-booker-praises-phoenix-suns-star-who-is-a-guy-you-hate-when-hes-not-on-your-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/168374\/","title":{"rendered":"Devin Booker praises Phoenix Suns star who is a ‘guy you hate when he’s not on your team’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Phoenix Suns front office has impressed Devin Booker with one addition.<\/p>\n

Moving on from Kevin Durant<\/a> and Bradley Beal<\/a> was extremely important for the Phoenix Suns<\/a> during the offseason.<\/p>\n

The team can finally focus on building another championship-contending core with Devin Booker<\/a> as the focal point.<\/p>\n

Speaking of Durant\u2019s trade to the Houston Rockets<\/a>, the Suns gained a terrific player in Dillon Brooks<\/a>, and Booker is seemingly already a fan of him.<\/p>\n

\"DillonPhoto by Chris Coduto\/Getty ImagesDevin Booker drops honest thoughts on teaming up with Dillon Brooks<\/p>\n

In recent times, Brooks has earned a reputation for being an annoying player on the court. This has led to Brooks becoming the villain in the eyes of many fans.<\/p>\n

However, Booker explained why the Suns had no issues embracing Brooks ahead of the 2025-26 NBA season.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe called me immediately, I think, the day that the trade went down. Just asked about my plans during the summer, when we\u2019re going to link up and get things started,\u201d Booker said after Suns\u2019 Media Day.<\/p>\n

Booker added: \u201cEverybody always explains him as the guy you hate when he\u2019s not on your team, but you embrace him when he is.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that whole reputation has taken away from what type of player he really is and how effective he is.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brooks had a solid run with the Rockets, even making the likes of Draymond Green angry<\/a>. It will be interesting to see what he brings to the table for the Suns.<\/p>\n

Phoenix Suns head coach Jordan Ott on Dillon Brooks<\/p>\n

In the new era, the Suns will be coached by Jordan Ott<\/a>. Evidently, it\u2019s important for the players to be on the same page with coach Ott.<\/p>\n

Despite Brooks\u2019 concerning reputation, he has already impressed Ott, as the Suns head coach heaped huge praise on him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we have all seen Dillon as an opponent. I actually was in LA, a couple of years ago, in the playoffs against him, and the edge and the competitive spirit that he played with is unmatched.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust knowing him from afar, we knew that competitive spirit would lift our group. Things we didn\u2019t know is that his work ethic backs it up. He\u2019s not all smoke,\u201d Ott stated with confidence.<\/p>\n

The Suns look like a solid match for Brooks, but only time will tell if he can truly secure a long-term relationship with the team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Phoenix Suns front office has impressed Devin Booker with one addition. Moving on from Kevin Durant and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,7224,20447,590,7185,85,7897],"class_list":["post-168374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-devin-booker","tag-dillon-brooks","tag-nba","tag-phoenix-suns","tag-sports","tag-western-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}