🏀💰 Devin Booker Agrees to 2-Year, $145M Max Extension with the Suns! 🔥

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👏🏀 Big money move! Devin Booker is staying with the Phoenix Suns, reportedly locking in a massive 2-year, $145 million max extension. 💸✨ What does this mean for the Suns’ championship hopes and their superstar’s future? Get all the details on the blockbuster deal! 🌟🏆

Devin Booker has agreed to a two-year, $145 million contract extension with the Phoenix Suns, according to ESPN's Shams Charania, keeping Phoenix’s face of the franchise under contract through 2030 as a hoped-for stabilizing agent amid a period of uncertainty in Arizona.

The collective bargaining agreement between the league and its players stipulates that a contract covering a term of five or six seasons (including option years) can’t be extended until the third anniversary of the signing of the contract, and that it can only be extended up to five years out from the date of the new deal’s signing.

Booker has three seasons left on the four-year, $224 supermax extension he agreed to in 2022, putting pen to paper on July 6. In total, Booker will be paid $316 million over the next five years.

Which is to say: The Suns are giving Booker as much money as they are allowed to give him, as soon as they are allowed to give it to him. They will also pay him an average annual salary higher than any player in the NFL.

wner Mat Ishbia was earlier this season about viewing Booker as the cornerstone of whatever came next in the Valley — even as rumblings about the Rockets’ interest in trading for him grew louder and louder as Phoenix dropped further and further in the Western Conference standings.

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It’s also very much in keeping with Booker’s own public statements about wanting to be one of the “rare breed” of players who spends his entire career with one franchise — even if that franchise has rarely tasted success during his tenure with it.

"I take pride in the community in Phoenix, the people that have supported me since I was 18 when things were ugly,” Booker told MacMahon. “And the people that are with us, we just fell short of accomplishing what we want. So I want to do it, and I want to do it here. That's the responsibility of being a franchise player, and I wear that with honor. So it might not look the most pretty right now, but we got to get it done and I'm going to do it."

The Suns enter the 2025-26 NBA season feeling pretty far away from getting it done, after failing to qualify for the playoffs for the first time since 2020, trading away one-time-all-in-bet Kevin Durant and rolling the dice on yet another new head coach … which, in its own way, brings us back to giving Booker as much money as possible, for as long as possible, as soon as possible.

As he neared the end of a profoundly disappointing Suns season, Booker sounded … well, profoundly disappointed.

“It’s been a slow bleed-out,” Booker told reporters. “I’ve been feeling this way for the majority of the season. I think the small glimpses of good stretches that we’ve played gave me hope, and probably gave everybody else hope. You never want it to be squeezing into the last spot of the play-in in the first place. … I think that’s one of the steps that we skipped: Learning through the wins and the losses. Just continue to get better every day, no matter what the circumstances are. We had spots where we did it, but it has to be something that’s turned on at all times.”

Attitude reflects leadership, and extending Booker firmly cements him as the central figure in establishing that culture of learning, improvement and constant engagement. Hitting him with the largest possible extension at the earliest opportunity is about as good a way as any to say, “Hey, sorry about the whole ‘dismantling a team that went to the NBA Finals and going from 64 wins to under .500 in three years’ thing” — and a pretty strong indicator of Phoenix’s commitment in rebuilding around someone who, 10 years into his career, has established himself as one of the greatest and most beloved Suns ever.

Booker, 28, is Phoenix’s all-time leader in points scored and 3-point field goals, and ranks in or near the top five in franchise history in a slew of other categories, including games, minutes and points per game. He’s a four-time All-Star, two-time All-NBA selection and two-time Olympic gold medalist. He’s one of the league’s premier three-level scorers: a high-efficiency finisher in the paint, an elite midrange marksman, and a five-alarm threat beyond the arc, whether he’s firing off the catch or pulling up behind a ball screen.

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⚾🔥 Jacob Misiorowski Strikes Out 12 Dodgers, Outduels Kershaw Despite Ohtani’s Leadoff HR! 💪🏆

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👏⚾ Rising star Jacob Misiorowski was on fire, fanning 12 Dodgers and leading the Brewers to a big win! Not even a leadoff homer from Shohei Ohtani or facing the legendary Clayton Kershaw could stop him. 🚀⚾ See how Misiorowski dominated the mound and made a statement against MLB’s biggest names!

Jacob Misiorowski faced perhaps the stiffest test yet of his sensational rookie campaign Tuesday against the defending World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers.

He passed, with honors.

Misiorowski allowed a leadoff home run to Shohei Ohtani on the third pitch of the game. From there, he struck out 12 and didn't allow another run to power the Brewers to a 3-1 win.

It added up to another sensational outing from the hard-throwing right-hander, who outdueled Dodgers legend Clayton Kershaw to pick up the win.

Los Angeles hitters posted a season-high 15 strikeouts for the game as the Dodgers lost their fifth straight and their second straight to the Brewers. They remain in control of the NL West with a 56-37 record. The Brewers improved to 52-40 to move within three games of the first-place Chicago Cubs in the NL Central.

Misiorowski fired up for final out of his night

Misiorowski showcased his heat with 21 fastballs that hit 100-plus mph on the radar gun. He balanced it with a sweeping slider and a diving curveball that repeatedly baffled the Dodgers.

When he got into his only jam of the night, he got an assist from a stellar Brewers defense and unleashed a celebratory fist pump when the inning was done.

"I was just in disbelief that I got out of the inning," Misiorowski told TBS after the game. "You're facing the Dodgers. It's just a wave of emotions to finally do what you were dreaming of doing."

Ohtani HR doesn't spell doom for Misiorowski

Misiorowski's night got off to an inauspicious start. He put Ohtani in an 0-2 hole to lead off the game. But he left a third-pitch curveball over the inside of the plate that Ohtani launched over the centerfield wall for his NL-best 31st home run of the season.

It threatened to be a real welcome-to-the-big leagues moment from the three-time MVP in the fifth start of Misiorowski's MLB career. But Misiorowski didn't rattle.

Misiorowski's sensational stuff

The 23-year-old proceeded to strikeout 10 of the next 13 batters he faced without issuing a walk. He was one pitch away from an immaculate inning in the second after striking out Michael Conforto and Hyeseong Kim on six pitches.

He ended up allowing a single to Dalton Rushing, but ended the inning with no damage thanks to a strikeout of James Outman.

His second time through the Dodgers order went better than his first. He struck out Ohtani with a 2-2 curveball in the third inning before ending the inning with a swinging strike three of Freddie Freeman to keep the Brewers within 1-0.

His second time through the Dodgers order went better than his first. He struck out Ohtani with a 2-2 curveball in the third inning before ending the inning with a swinging strike three of Freddie Freeman to keep the Brewers within 1-0.

He recorded two more strikeouts in the fourth before Brewers bats finally got to Kershaw with two runs in the bottom of the inning for a 2-1 Milwaukee lead.

Misiorowski added two more strikeouts in the fifth inning, including a four-pitch effort that got Outman swinging on a 99 mph fastball on the outside corner.

In the sixth inning, Misiorowski got into his first jam. He promptly worked out of it with some help.

Brewers defense steps up to preserve lead

Misiorowski issued a leadoff walk to Ohtani on a full count, then allowed an infield hit to Mookie Betts. A Freddie Freeman groundout advanced the runners to second and third with one out.

Here are the takeaways...

-Will Warren came into Tuesday's game with a 7.50 ERA in the first inning but came out of the opening frame unscathed. The young right-hander matched Seattle starter Logan Gilbert, who was pitching a perfect game through 3.2 innings before Cody Bellinger's single broke it up.

Fans were treated to a pitcher's duel into the fifth inning when the Mariners threatened to push across the game's first run. With runners on the corners with two outs, and a 2-1 count, the tarp was called and the game was put in a rain delay. There was about a 30-minute delay, and Warren went back out there to finish the fifth, throwing just one pitch.

The delay seemed to affect Gilbert who allowed two runners for the first time all game in the fifth. Anthony Volpe came up with runners on first and second and one out. The Yankees shortstop grounded into a fielder's choice setting up Oswald Peraza who hit a soft hopper to the right of second baseman Cole Young, who bobbled it and allowed Peraza to reach safely and drive in the game's first run.

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