released a video of Melvin and Devin Booker<\/a> talking about the change on Sunday, which is Father\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n\u201cI\u2019ve been chasing 15 my whole career,\u201d Booker said. \u201cIt\u2019s always been a family number. Obviously (my dad) wore it and I looked at (him) as the blueprint for success.\u201d<\/p>\n
Booker has worn the No. 1 for his entire NBA career, but previously wore No. 15 while playing for the United States and winning two gold medals at the 2020 and 2024 Olympics. He\u2019s the Suns\u2019 all-time leading scorer with 19,520 points in the regular season and playoffs over 11 NBA seasons.<\/p>\n
Melvin Booker was a star guard in college at Missouri, where he was an All-America selection and Big Eight Player of the Year in 1994.<\/p>\n
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AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/nba<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 Phoenix Suns\u2019 five-time All-Star guard Devin Booker has changed his jersey number to No. 15…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":751700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[339386,5888,64,63,32132,7224,360725,590,31647,13799,7185,85],"class_list":["post-751699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-2024-paris-olympic-games","tag-arizona","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-az-state-wire","tag-devin-booker","tag-melvin-booker","tag-nba","tag-nba-basketball","tag-nba-playoffs","tag-phoenix-suns","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751699","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=751699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/751700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}