{"id":874381,"date":"2026-06-17T21:27:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T21:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/874381\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T21:27:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T21:27:16","slug":"report-devin-booker-to-switch-jersey-number-to-honor-his-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/874381\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Devin Booker to switch jersey number to honor his father"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\"><b>PHOENIX (AZFamily)<\/b> \u2014 Devin Booker will wear a different number on his back next season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/2067323390709412161\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/2067323390709412161\">ESPN reports<\/a> Booker is switching from his signature No. 1 to No. 15 for the 2026-27 season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Booker said the change is a tribute to his dad, Melvin Booker, who wore 15 at the University of Missouri.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Melvin helped guide Devin\u2019s career from Michigan to Mississippi to Kentucky and eventually to Phoenix.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The number 15 is also the number Devin has worn with Team USA at the Olympics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Booker has worn No. 1 since he was drafted by the Suns in 2015 and has been named an All-Star five times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">See a spelling or grammatical error in our story? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/page\/send-us-your-feedback\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Please click here to report it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Do you have a photo or video of a breaking news story? Send <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/community\/user-content\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">it to us here<\/a> with a brief description.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KTVK\/KPHO. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX (AZFamily) \u2014 Devin Booker will wear a different number on his back next season. ESPN reports Booker&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":810242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,7182,7196,355456,1260,1589,7183,1721,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-874381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-phoenix","tag-america","tag-arizona","tag-az","tag-azfamily","tag-devin-booker","tag-melvin-booker","tag-nba","tag-phoenix","tag-phoenix-news","tag-phoenix-suns","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116767571766276950","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/810242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}