Devin Booker was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on the 30th of October 1996. Booker is the son of
Veronica Gutiérrez, a cosmetologist, and Melvin Booker, who was named the 1994 Big Eight Player
of the Year while a point guard at Missouri. His parents met while his father was playing
basketball for the CBA’s Grand Rapids Hoops . Booker was born and raised in Grand Rapids,
living with his mother, who is reportedly of Mexican and Puerto Rican descent
while his African-American father pursued a professional basketball career internationally.
He visited his father regularly during the summer. At age 12 while visiting him in Milan,
he played one-on-one with Danilo Gallinari. Booker was taught by his father that having basketball IQ
was just as important as natural athleticism. During his time in middle school,
Booker became friends with future fellow NBA players D'Angelo Russell and Tyler Ulis.
Booker moved to Mississippi to be with his father during high school. He went
to Moss Point High School where his dad was an assistant coach. He went
on to average 30 points a game his senior season. He played one season with the Kentucky Wildcats,
a team that had Karl Anthony-Town and Willie Cauley-Stein. Talk about Stacked
Booker was selected by the Phoenix Suns in the first round of the 2015 NBA draft with the 13th
overall pick. On March 24, 2017, he became the youngest player to score over 60 points in a game,
finishing with 70 against the Boston Celtics. In March 2019, at 22 years old, Booker became
the youngest player in NBA history with consecutive 50-point games.
Booker is a three-time NBA All-Star and helped the Suns reach the NBA Finals in 2021.
Apart from his successful NBA career, Devin Booker is also fighting for a spot
the USA basketball team. Due to his mother's ethnic background, Booker drew interest from
the Mexican and U.S. national teams. Booker’s professional career has been
growing ever since he got into the league. His bank account has been growing as well.
Devin Booker managed to accumulate a lot of money in the last few years. So,
the question is how did he accumulate his wealth? How does he spend it? Stay tuned and find out.
NBA Salary Devin started his career
with a 4-year $10 million dollar rookie contract. In 2019, the Suns budding superstar reached an
agreement to extend his deal with the franchise to earn 158 million dollars over a five-year period.
That’s an average salary of $31.6 million annually.
The last year of this contract is 2023-24 where he will earn an astounding $36 million .
He's the highest-paid player on the Phoenix Suns and hopefully they can extend him again
when the contract is up. Endorsement Deals
Booker has been a Nike athlete, and he was retained by the brand after becoming
a sneaker free agent in 2019. He is a celebrated athlete at Nike and Booker recently sported the
‘Nike Kobe 5 Proto’ and has donned several Kobe Bryant signature editions in the past.
Booker has picked up other endorsements, including deals with sports video companies
Overtime and Buzzer, video game Call of Duty and convenience store delivery app GoPuff.
Booker is making about $8 million annually from endorsement deals.
Booker is also improving himself on the investment front. He participated in a funding
round for luxury watch marketplace WatchBox. Devin Booker joined the Global Ambassador hotel
project in Phoenix. It was his first commercial real estate investment, but as an NBA All-Star
and one of the city’s most famous faces, he can really put this project on the map.
“His desire to be a businessman and learn about business and investments at that young an age was
something I had not heard before, not seen before, not like that.” says Jim Reynolds,
Booker’s advisor and business partner. The shooting guard was named to Forbes’
2022 30 Under 30 list in the sports category, has already shown he can be a quick study.
Keep investing, Devin. This is how the money grows long term!!
Yeah, we learned about D Book’s income streams. So with that Devin Booker has a current net worth of…
wait, we will get to that later. Now that we know where Booker gets his money from, let’s talk about
his lifestyle and how he spends his millions. Mansion
In early 2017, Devin made a purchase of $3.25 million for a mansion in Paradise Valley.
The 5600 square feet home rocks a modern architectural style featuring four bedrooms,
four bathrooms, a chef kitchen with a wine cellar, and a four-car garage.
However, he put this market up for sale in early 2020 and sold it for a profit at $3.45 million .
Devin recently moved into a bigger and better estate near the old crib.
This mega mansion [MOU18] is outfitted with 12-foot-long sofas, a custom poker table,
a floor-to-ceiling wine display, a massive pool, and a garage for his car collection.
Devin talked about hosting his teammates a lot and wanted to make sure it can fit
everyone comfortably. As you can see, this pad is very stylish and cool but in a natural way.
Cars Aside from coming up clutch on
the court, D. Book uses his clutch because he also loves collecting classic cars from various eras.
The classic cars in his collection includes a 1972 Chevrolet C10, a 1959 Chevrolet Impala Convertible
, a matte black Ferrari 488 Spyder, a 1987 Buick Grand National, and a Chevy Caprice Convertible.
If we had to choose just one car from his collection, it would probably be his Buick
GNX . That thing could hit 60 mph in just 4.6 seconds and Booker’s car looks pristine, so we
wouldn’t be surprised if it was still putting down around 245 horsepower. Old school and smooth baby.
“I’m a classic car collector. [I think it’s a family tradition for me that
I took on and honed in on,” Booker said. “People always ask me what’s my favorite.
It’s like picking your favorite child, you just don’t do that,” he said, before promptly
leading the crew to his most beloved ride, his 1959 Chevrolet Impala named ‘Pretty Penny.’
Charity Phoenix Suns Charities
introduced the "Devin Booker Starting Five " last year, an initiative in which five local
nonprofit organizations will be granted money to each to continue improving the lives of youth
and families in need throughout Arizona. This has been made possible thanks to a
generous donation from the Suns guard, who announced a $500,000 annual contribution to
Phoenix Suns Charities for five years during their annual gala, THE JUMP.
D. Book, by working with the Suns Charities board of directors, pledged $2.5 million
split between five non-profit organizations. Booker also donated $100,000 in and around
Phoenix and campaigned to raise funds to help the community during the pandemic lockdown.
Girlfriend It's been two
years since model Kendall Jenner and Devin Booker were spotted on a road trip to Sedona,
and the celebrity couple is still going strong.
Jenner and Booker have featured each other more prominently on social media since his run in the
2021 NBA Finals— during which Jenner showed her support for team by showing up to games.
Devin Booker is happy and he's not afraid to share it.
In a new interview with WSJ Magazine, the Suns guard was asked if being in
the "public eye" as both an athlete and also the boyfriend of Kendall Jenner is "hard."
"I wouldn't say hard. Honestly, I'm enjoying life to the fullest, and that came off my tongue so
easily because it wasn't always this way, but I feel like I'm in a good place right now."
Continued Booker, "I love my family, I love the people around me, and I love the impact that I get
to have on this world, the younger generation under me and the kids who look up to me.”
Net Worth As you probably noticed Devin
Booker has a low-key personality but does live a flashy lifestyle with a dope car collection.
But if you got it, Flaunt it. But without any going further,
let’s reveal Devin Booker’s net worth. Devin Booker has a net worth of 40 million dollars.
Still very young, he has a long way to go as far as building up that bank account.
Thanks for watching, see you on the next one and peace out.