Suns guard Devin Booker doesn’t know Tyler Vasquez and Kirk Erickson by name or face, but he understands and appreciates the passion they and other Suns fans have for a franchise that’s been hard to like in recent years.
Booker had no doubt that if the Suns gave fans such as Vasquez and Erickson a reason to show their love, they would. And that’s what Suns fans have done as the team has arrived on the brink of its first NBA Championship.
“You hear those stories at all times,” Booker said of fans, “and seeing the passion in their eyes when they’re telling the stories.