Overview
- Bleacher Report writer Zach Buckley listed Devin Booker among several star players who could ask for or be traded, framing the comment as prediction rather than fact.
- The Phoenix Suns have publicly resisted trading Booker and he remains the lone player carried over from the franchise’s 2021 Finals run.
- Phoenix finished the 2025–26 season with 45 wins but relied on play-in games and was swept in the first round after posting the NBA’s 17th-ranked offense.
- Multiple injuries hampered the Suns last season, including Booker missing 18 games, Jalen Green missing most of the year, and recurring center injuries that weakened team offense.
- Front office decisions — notably trading an unprotected future first-round pick for Miles Bridges — have reduced long-term draft assets while GM Brian Gregory keeps flexibility to pursue bigger roster moves over the next one to two summers.