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Phoenix (USA) -He just became Phoenix Suns All-Time Leader scores. Still, he has to learn to be patient.

His time is coming. It’s a security. But Devin Booker will have to wait a little longer before he enters the limelight. He is arguably the largest NBA All-Star Snub from 2025. And even when Anthony Davis was injured, Kyrie Irving got the replacement invitation.

Unfortunately for Devin Booker, the same was true only a few months earlier, back in Paris 2024 with the US Basketball.

No player could have stolen the Olympic Ramply Light from a trio of legends determined to Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame when their play days are over.

Still, the United States -coach Steve Kerr, with most of the attention during the team’s race for a gold medal at a fifth straight Olympics to LeBron James, Stephen Curry and Kevin Durant, left no doubt about the importance of booker for the reason last summer in Summer in the summer in France.

When his last press conference ended at the Paris Olympics after the US 98-87 gold medal play triumph over France, Kerr wrote in one of his important thoughts.

“Devin Booker is an incredibly basketball player,” he said. “No one asked about him. He was our usung MVP. I just wanted to say that.”

Everything Booker, a member of Tokyo Olympic Games Gold Medal-Winning USA team, made last summer in France helped pave the way for the country’s latest success, which was reflected by Phoenix Suns Star’s Best Plus/Minus (Plus-130) at The team.

He had 15 points, 6 rebounds and 3 assists in the final, while he an average of 11.7 points per Match, which was best on the team along with 3.3 assists and 2.2 3-Pointers per year. Competition.

With regard to minutes per Game Game Average Only James (24.5), Curry (23.3) and Durant (22.2) More than Booker (22.0)

No one shot it better from three-point range than Booker (56.5 percent), which says something since sharp shooter Curry (47.8 percent) and Durant (51.9 percent) was on the team.

Booker let the game come to him. He did what he needed for the United States to win. It is not so much that he tried not to get in the way of the aforementioned trio.

Booker just showed its high basketball -IQ by contributing where it was necessary with offense, usually in a timely way and by playing unusually hard and good on defense.

Players of national teams, especially the elites, need to control their egos at the door and do what is needed to win. That’s the only thing that matters. Since the 2008 Olympics, US players always show up with the attitude ready to sacrifice to get to the top of the podium.

Since returning to the NBA, Booker has played the game at his usual elite level, an average of 24.6 points, 6.8 assists and 3.9 rebounds per day. Match, but Suns is still 12. At the 15-team Western conference. Phoenix is ​​two wins in a tenth placed San Antonio that occupies the last play-in place for the after-season.

Earlier in the NBA season, Booker was asked about Kerr’s comment “Unsung MVP”.

“It meant everything,” he said to Andcape. “No one really asked him. It was probably something that weighs on his heart throughout the process. I said it a year before what I would do for that team and what we will do for the country.

“It was far greater than all of us. Pulling through was something we want to talk about the rest of our lives.”

Booker, 28, definitely has the design to go for another gold medal at the Olympics. During the summer matches he made a vlog and heard that said to the young US -teammate Anthony Edwards, “I see you in LA, boy.”

In three and a half years, if booker continues to excel and bloom in one of the game’s greatness, Kerr can be sure there will be plenty of questions about his “USUNG MVP.”

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