Devin Booker Age 2026: How Old Is Devin Booker?

Last updated: November 11, 2026  ·  By Nathan Cole

Devin Booker is 30 years old in 2026. He was born October 30, 1996, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and he turned 30 on October 30, 2026 — two weeks into his 12th NBA season, all of them with the Phoenix Suns. Thirty is the age when a shooting guard’s story usually changes: the highlight years are behind him, the contract years are ahead of him, and every season becomes a question about how long the prime lasts.

For Booker, the answer so far is that the prime is still running. He is the Suns’ all-time leading scorer, a four-time All-Star, a two-time Olympic gold medallist, and the owner of the richest annual extension salary in NBA history — a two-year, $145 million deal signed in July 2025 that pays him about $72.5 million a year from 2028. This profile answers the age question directly, then traces the timeline that got him here: the Kentucky season, the 70-point night at 20, the Finals run, and the 2026–27 season now under way.

How Old Is Devin Booker?

Devin Booker is 30 years old. He was born on October 30, 1996, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and he celebrated his 30th birthday two weeks into the 2026–27 NBA season — his 12th season in the league, and his 12th with the Phoenix Suns, the team that drafted him 13th overall in 2015.

The age matters because of where it sits in a shooting guard’s career. Guards who rely on burst and lift usually peak between 26 and 30; the ones who last into their mid-30s do it by adding craft — footwork, foul-drawing, playmaking — as the first step slows. Booker has spent the last two seasons making exactly that shift, and the early weeks of 2026–27 show it working: 23.0 points per game through his first five games, per Fubo’s early-November 2026 logs, with the scoring coming on efficiency rather than volume.

Devin Booker at 30: What the Number Means

Thirty is a hinge age in the NBA, and Booker’s case shows why. He has played eleven full seasons, all for one franchise, and he is now the veteran on a roster that has been rebuilt around him twice — first after the Chris Paul era ended, then again after the Kevin Durant and Bradley Beal years. The Ringer, in a November 4, 2026 trade-rumour piece, put it plainly: “Booker is 30, still firmly in his prime” — and then asked the question that follows any 30-year-old star on a rebuilding team, which is how long he stays.

His own answer has been consistency. He has never asked for a trade, and the Suns answered his loyalty with money: the July 2025 extension keeps him in Phoenix through at least the 2029–30 season, with a player option for the final year. The $145 million deal carries the highest annual extension salary in NBA history, about $72.5 million a year — a number that only makes sense if the Suns believe the prime has several years left. At 30, with his game built on shooting touch and footwork rather than raw athleticism, that belief is reasonable.

Early Life: Grand Rapids, Moss Point, and a Father in the NBA

Booker was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to Melvin Booker and Veronica Gutiérrez. His father had played college basketball at Missouri and spent time in the NBA with Houston, Denver, and Golden State in the mid-1990s, before a longer career overseas. Devin grew up around the game — gyms, road trips, and a father who knew what the league demanded — and the shooting form that defines him now was built early, with his father’s coaching.

For high school, Booker moved to Moss Point, Mississippi, to live with his father. At Moss Point High School he became one of the best scorers in the country, a McDonald’s All-American in 2014, and a five-star recruit. Kentucky won the recruiting race, and he arrived in Lexington in the fall of 2014 as part of a freshman class that included Karl-Anthony Towns.

Kentucky: One Season, SEC Sixth Man of the Year

Booker played one season at Kentucky, 2014–15, and it was enough. He came off the bench for most of the year on a team that started the season 38–0, and he was named SEC Sixth Man of the Year for it — a shooter who could enter a game cold and change it in two minutes. Kentucky reached the Final Four before losing to Wisconsin, and Booker declared for the draft that spring.

The one-and-done year did two things that still shape his career. It taught him to produce in short bursts off the bench, a skill that later became his closing ability in the fourth quarter. And it put him on the draft board as a shooter first and everything else second — a label he has spent eleven seasons outgrowing, adding playmaking and defence to a game that started as pure scoring.

The 70-Point Night

On March 24, 2017, at 20 years and 145 days old, Devin Booker scored 70 points against the Boston Celtics. He was the youngest player in NBA history to score 70 in a game, and only the sixth player ever to reach the number, joining Wilt Chamberlain, Kobe Bryant, David Thompson, Elgin Baylor, and David Robinson. The Suns lost the game 130–120, which is the detail everyone remembers second — and the reason the night still gets argued about.

Critics called it empty calories on a bad team; the box score said otherwise in one respect: Booker took 40 shots and made 21, hit 24 of 26 free throws, and scored 51 of his 70 after half-time. He was 20 years old, in his second season, on a team going nowhere, and he had just done something only five players in history had done. The night became the founding story of his career — the proof that the scoring ceiling was as high as anyone’s in the league.

The Rise to Franchise Cornerstone

The years after the 70-point game were slow. The Suns kept losing, and Booker kept scoring, and the question was whether the two facts were connected. The answer arrived in 2021, when Phoenix — with Chris Paul at point guard and Booker as the closer — reached the NBA Finals, losing to the Milwaukee Bucks in six games. Booker averaged 28.2 points in the Finals and scored 40-plus in back-to-back games, and the “empty stats” argument died there.

The honours stacked up after that: All-Star selections in 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2024, and All-NBA First Team in 2022, the same summer he signed the four-year, $220.4 million supermax extension. His career scoring average sits above 24 points per game, and he has done it all in one uniform — a rarity in an era when stars change teams every few years. When the Suns’ big-three experiment with Durant and Beal ended, Booker was the player they kept, and the one they built around again.

Olympic Gold: Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024

Booker has two Olympic gold medals, and the second one mattered more than the first. In Tokyo in 2021, he flew straight from the NBA Finals to the Games and won gold with Team USA. In Paris in 2024, he started for a team stacked with LeBron James, Stephen Curry, and Durant, and he did the unglamorous work — defence, cutting, timely shooting — that let the stars be stars. Coaches and teammates praised him afterward as the team’s most complete two-way player in Paris, a reputation that has stuck.

The Olympic years track his age curve neatly: 24 in Tokyo, still the young scorer; 27 in Paris, a veteran doing the winning plays. At 30, with the 2028 Los Angeles Games on the horizon, a third gold is a live possibility — and a home Olympics would be a fitting stage for a player who has never played for a team other than Phoenix.

The Suns’ All-Time Leading Scorer

In February 2025, Booker passed Walter Davis’s 15,666 points to become the Phoenix Suns’ all-time leading scorer. Davis had held the record since 1988, and Booker broke it in his tenth season, at 28 years old. The record is the cleanest measure of his career: not one great season, but ten years of 24-plus points a night, in the same jersey, without missing long stretches to injury.

He did it while the franchise around him changed completely. The Suns of 2015, when he was drafted, share almost nothing with the Suns of 2026 except him and the uniform. That is the point of the record, and the reason the July 2025 extension followed it: Phoenix decided, twice, that the player worth building around was the one already there.

The 5 Million Extension and the 0M–0M Net Worth

The money is where Booker’s age and his value meet. In July 2025, the Suns signed him to a two-year, $145 million maximum extension, reported by Shams Charania, that begins in the 2028–29 season and runs through 2029–30, with a player option on the final year. The deal averages about $72.5 million a year — the highest annual extension salary in NBA history — and brings his total guaranteed earnings with Phoenix to more than $321 million through 2030, per Celebrity Net Worth’s contract reporting. His salary for 2026–27 is $57.08 million.

That money feeds the net-worth estimates, which disagree more than most. Celebrity Net Worth lists $150 million; a calculated 2026 estimate from Wine & Food puts it near $115 million; imdevendra lists $100 million. Older profiles still show $50 million, but those predate the July 2025 extension and the Nike deal, and they understate the current picture. The honest range for 2026 is $100 million to $150 million, with the top of the range resting on Celebrity Net Worth’s figure. For a fuller breakdown of the fortune behind the age, see Devin Booker’s net worth on our sister site CelebAmerica.

Endorsements are the second stream. Nike gave him his first signature shoe, the Book 1, in 2024, and signed him to a six-year extension in 2023 that runs through 2029. SurpriseSports puts his endorsement income at about $8 million a year, with COCO5 and Foot Locker alongside Nike. One correction from the 2026 reporting: a July 2026 profile from imdevendra removed earlier Corona and Call of Duty claims from his endorsement list as unsupported — a reminder that the wilder endorsement lists online are not all reliable.

The 2026–27 Season So Far

The new season opened with Booker doing what he has done for a decade: scoring efficiently and carrying the offence. Through his first five games he averaged 23.0 points per game, per Fubo’s early-November 2026 logs. The recent game log tells the story week by week: 26 points in a loss to the Warriors on November 3, 33 points in a loss to the Trail Blazers on November 4, 30 points and eight assists in a 117–104 win over the Magic on November 5, and a game-high 24 points in a win over the Rockets on November 7.

The context is a Suns team still finding itself after another rebuild. The 2025–26 season finished 45–37, seventh in the West: Phoenix lost its first play-in game to Portland, beat Golden State 111–96 to take the eighth seed, and was then swept 0–4 in the first round by the defending champion Oklahoma City Thunder. The roster around Booker turned over again in the summer, with Jalen Green and Dillon Brooks now alongside him. At 30, he is the constant — the scorer, the closer, and the player the offence runs through in the fourth quarter. The season’s open question is whether the supporting cast is good enough to keep him out of the trade rumours that surface every November.

Personal Life: Family and the Kendall Jenner Years

Booker’s family story is a basketball story. His father, Melvin, played in the NBA and overseas, and Devin grew up with a professional’s understanding of the work — the shooting drills, the film, the road. His mother, Veronica Gutiérrez, raised him in Grand Rapids before the move to Mississippi for high school, and she remains a close presence in his life. He has no children, and he keeps his family life mostly private.

His most public relationship was with Kendall Jenner, the model and reality star, in an on-off relationship that ran from 2018 to 2022 and was covered constantly by the celebrity press. It ended in 2022, and Booker has kept his dating life out of the headlines since. The contrast with his basketball life is sharp: one of the most photographed players in the league, and one of the most private.

How Booker Compares at 30

Thirty looks different depending on who you compare it with. Against the generation ahead of him, Booker is the young veteran; against the generation behind him, he is the old head. The table shows where he sits.

The comparison that matters most is Curry’s. Curry, at 38, is proof that a shooting guard built on skill rather than burst can play at an elite level deep into his late 30s — and Curry signed to play until 41. Booker’s game is built the same way: footwork, touch, and shot selection. If his body holds, the $145 million extension may look cheap by 2029. The Celebrity Net Worth category on this site tracks the same careers and contracts across the league.

Devin Booker by the Numbers

The career line is the simplest version of the biography: 70 points in a single game at 20, four All-Star selections, an All-NBA First Team nod, two Olympic gold medals, and the Phoenix Suns’ all-time scoring record, all before his 30th birthday. His career scoring average sits above 24 points per game, and his 2026–27 salary of $57.08 million makes him one of the seven highest-paid players in the league — tied with Jaylen Brown and Karl-Anthony Towns, per imdevendra’s 2026–27 salary ranking. Nikola Jokic, the player whose $80–120 million fortune tops the centre position, earns less per year than Booker’s extension will pay from 2028.

What the numbers cannot show is the loyalty. Booker has played for one team, in one city, for eleven seasons and counting — through losing years, a Finals run, two rebuilds, and three different co-stars. At 30, with the richest annual extension in NBA history in his pocket and the franchise scoring record already his, the biography is a story of staying put in a league that rewards movement. The next four years will decide whether staying was the right call.

Sources & Reporting

Age and birth date: Basketball-Reference, Sportradar, Fubo, Topps (all list October 30, 1996, age 30). Career milestones: Basketball-Reference, NBA records, Suns franchise records. Contract and earnings: Shams Charania (July 2025 extension reporting), Fanspo contract table (career earnings $270.6M through 2025–26), Celebrity Net Worth ($150M net worth; $321M+ guaranteed through 2030), EssentiallySports (contract breakdown, February 12, 2026). Net worth: Celebrity Net Worth ($150M), Wine & Food (~$115M calculated), imdevendra ($100M, updated July 28, 2026), ExclusiveTak ($50–60M), SurpriseSports ($50M, stale). 2026–27 season: Fubo game logs, NBC Sports player news (November 3–8, 2026). Peer ages come from Guide Net Worth’s own verified profiles. Reporting window: through November 11, 2026.

Figures marked as estimates are outside estimates, not statements by Devin Booker. Where sources disagree, this article publishes a range and names the disagreement.

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