Phoenix Suns’ Devin Booker played quarterback as a youngster. Sunday, he showed in the 2024 NBA All-Star Game in Indianapolis, Indiana, he still has football skills, something Kevin Durant knew.
Booker, who is one of two players to rank in the top-10 in points (27.5) and assists per game (7.0), threw full-court passes to the Timberwolves’ Anthony Edwards, the LA Clippers’ Paul George and former Kentucky teammate and Timberwolves’ Karl-Anthony Towns, who led the game with 50 points.
Although Booker was named an All-Star, he and the other professional superstars were criticized by the audience at-large for the lackluster contest. The East — which scored 211 points, by far the most in the game’s history by the winner — beat the West, which finished with 186.
“It was cool,” Booker, the Suns’ franchise star, said. “Pickup, friendly basketball.”
Booker also referred to the balance between competition and not getting injured.
“I have no answer for it,” Booker said.
Booker was named a reserve and finished with 15 points, third-most on the bench behind Towns and Warriors’ Steph Curry (16).
