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'Put the best players in the game': Phoenix Suns guard Devin Booker after NBA All-Star selection snub

The league has changed on Devin Booker.

After not being named an NBA All-Star reserve as voted by the head coaches, Booker voiced his disappointment in a way that was aimed squarely at the selection process.

“It was always a goal of mine, but it just reproves the point that the NBA is different from the game I fell in love with at the beginning of all the best players being in the all-star game,” said Booker, who is averaging 27.1 points on 51% shooting, both career highs, in his fifth NBA season out of Kentucky.

“Growing up watching that.