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In Game 6, Devin Booker did what we knew was capable of but weren’t sure he’d ever get the opportunity to do

When the Suns went up 29 in the second quarter of Game 6 on Thursday night, I got to thinking.

There’s a story I’ve told many times about the open practice in 2019 when young fans approached Devin Booker (then barely 23) with gifts, drawings and Suns gear, and he generously accepted it all before heading out to midcourt to thank the entire fanbase. At 23! I thought about that story during Game 6, as well as many more.

I remembered the double-team controversy (which Chris Haynes so delightfully reminded us of this week), the FIFA World Cup nonsense, the “looter in a riot” Twitter blowout, everything Bill Simmons had said, the Kevin Arnovitz goat crap story, and every other slight before and since.