Suns interim head coach Earl Watson was getting a haircut recently with rookie guard Devin Booker’s father when he was taken aback by how Melvin Booker relished seeing his son go through the recent challenges.
As the NBA’s youngest player, Booker is playing more than twice as much as he did as a reserve earlier this season and is receiving 10 times the focus of scouting reports and defenses. He was asked to take on a greater scoring role just as the Suns ran out of healthy point guards.
“Dad, did you see how defenses are preparing against me?