{"id":763835,"date":"2026-06-18T02:36:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T02:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/763835\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T02:36:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T02:36:18","slug":"devin-booker-changing-his-jersey-number-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/763835\/","title":{"rendered":"Devin Booker changing his jersey number: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:Fox local;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"Fox local\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/lo\/mysterio\/api\/232C1E841BC0BB863E0E9B74B574D5BADEBDCEDD7912DF6C56EBCD799BAD61E9\/subgraphmysterio\/resizefill_w0_h40;quality_80;format_webp\/\"\/><\/a>Wed, June 17, 2026 at 7:39 PM UTC<img alt=\"\" fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_fox_aggregated_articles_807\/b955b527bfe4a486c0d2ce07e296bb9c.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Devin Booker #1 of the Phoenix Suns looks to drive against the Atlanta Hawks during the second quarter at State Farm Arena on January 23, 2026, in Atlanta, Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>(Photo by Kevin C. Cox\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>The Brief<\/p>\n<p>Devin Booker is reportedly changing his jersey number.<\/p>\n<p>According to ESPN&#8217;s Shams Charania, Booker will change his number to No. 15 in honor of his USA Basketball number and his father&#8217;s college basketball number.<\/p>\n<p>PHOENIX &#8211; Phoenix Suns star Devin Booker may look a little different when taking the court next season.<\/p>\n<p>What we know<\/p>\n<p>Booker is changing his jersey number from No. 1 to 15, according to ESPN&#8217;s Shams Charania.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Phoenix Suns star Devin Booker is changing his jersey from No. 1 to No. 15, honoring his USA Basketball uniform and the college number of his father, Melvin, per ESPN sources,&#8221; Charania <a data-ylk=\"slk:wrote in a June 17 X post;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/2067323390709412161\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">wrote in a June 17 X post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dig deeper<\/p>\n<p>Booker was drafted by the <a data-ylk=\"slk:Suns;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/sports\/nba\/suns\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Suns<\/a> in 2015. He has worn No. 1 on his jersey for his entire Suns career but has worn No. 15 while playing for USA Basketball in the Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>Booker&#8217;s father, <a data-ylk=\"slk:Melvin;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/mutigers.com\/honors\/hall-of-fame\/melvin-booker\/106\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Melvin<\/a>, wore No. 15 during his college basketball career at the University of Missouri.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_fox_aggregated_articles_807\/231d56ced7d3367d46f263be7679e17a.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Melvin Booker of the Missouri Tigers dribbles the court during a game against the Kansas Jayhawks. Missouri won the game 81-74.<\/p>\n<p>(Photo by Earl Richardson\/Allsport)<\/p>\n<p>The Source<\/p>\n<p>Information for this story was gathered from an X post by ESPN&#8217;s Shams Charania on June 17, 2026, and a bio of Melvin Booker posted to the University of Missouri Athletics website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wed, June 17, 2026 at 7:39 PM UTC Devin Booker #1 of the Phoenix Suns looks to drive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":763836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3791],"tags":[7,2292,130,3900,93691,6,2065,472,4045,567,604,3359],"class_list":["post-763835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-phoenix-suns","tag-basketball","tag-devin-booker","tag-espn","tag-jersey-number","tag-melvin-booker","tag-nba","tag-phoenix","tag-phoenix-suns","tag-phoenixsuns","tag-shams-charania","tag-suns","tag-usa-basketball"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116768786632579103","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=763835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}