The Suns’ official online tag this year is #RisePHX, but the quip everyone has been most ready to bust out when they’re speaking publicly about the state of the team is... Focus forward.
Few in the organization were willing to be any more specific than that on media day earlier this month, except Devin Booker, who plainly said he wanted to make the playoffs. Booker said the same thing even more aggressively in 2018, when he told The Undefeated he never wanted to miss the playoffs again.
The scoring guard is as competitive as they come, but it was notable he was the only one stating that goal this year — until Saturday.