{"id":494988,"date":"2026-04-30T20:47:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T18:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=494988"},"modified":"2026-04-30T20:47:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T18:47:57","slug":"mat-ishbia-devin-booker-is-our-franchise-player-hes-going-to-lead-us-to-a-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/mat-ishbia-devin-booker-is-our-franchise-player-hes-going-to-lead-us-to-a-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Mat Ishbia: &#8220;Devin Booker is our franchise player, he\u2019s going to lead us to a championship&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mat Ishbia has firmly shut down any speculation about the Phoenix Suns potentially trading Devin Booker, making it clear the All-Star guard remains the franchise cornerstone.<\/p>\n<p>Ishbia expressed full confidence in Booker, stating he believes he will lead Phoenix to an NBA title and emphasizing the organization\u2019s commitment to building a stronger roster around him. He also dismissed trade rumors as baseless.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Mat Ishbia SHUTS DOWN any talk about the Suns trading Devin Booker \ud83d\ude4c<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[He] is going to lead us to a championship here in Phoenix&#8230; I&#8217;ll ride into a fire with Devin Booker, and I&#8217;ll do it proudly.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RS2OQQIUGh\">pic.twitter.com\/RS2OQQIUGh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 PHNX Suns (@PHNX_Suns) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PHNX_Suns\/status\/2049907235372032210?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 30, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Booker, a five-time All-Star, finished his 11th NBA season averaging 26.1 points and 6 assists per game, while shooting 45% from the field, 33% from three, and 87% from the free-throw line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Phoenix Suns owner dismissed trade rumors on the 5-time All Star as baseless<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":493005,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-494988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/04\/devin-booker-1.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494988"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=494988"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=494988"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=494988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}