Devin Booker on the Move? 3 Possible Landing Spots for the Suns Star

What are the Phoenix Suns doing?

No team in the NBA might be in a more awkward spot than the Suns, who only two seasons ago thought they had unlocked a championship window with a starring trio of Devin Booker, Kevin Durant, and Bradley Beal.

Now, Durant is on the Houston Rockets, and Beal is as far away from the state of Arizona as possible. Booker remains, but after getting run over by the Oklahoma City Thunder in the opening round of the playoffs, Phoenix stands at a crossroads: try continuing to build around Booker, or trade him, embracing a rebuild in a Western Conference that might be ruled by the Thunder and San Antonio Spurs for at least the next half-decade.

If the Suns do trade Booker, here are the top three landing spots for Phoenix’s franchise player.

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Detroit Pistons

The most obvious home for Booker is where it all started. He grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and he’d fit perfectly for a Pistons team that desperately needs someone to take the pressure off of Cade Cunningham.

For Booker, it’d allow him to slide into the secondary star role and help Cunningham continue growing into a top-10 player in the league. To get Booker, though, could the Pistons stomach destroying their death and trading away all their draft capital?

Charlotte Hornets

Who says no if the Hornets offer up LaMelo Ball and filler for Devin Booker? Charlotte gains a veteran who knows what it feels like to play and lead a team to the NBA Finals, someone who can help take an immature Hornets roster to the next level. For Phoenix, they get younger by five years and have a building block towards two to three years down the road when they can possibly contend again in the West.

Houston Rockets

The Rockets and Suns already have each other’s numbers after the Durant trade, so why not just keep making transactions with each other?

Durant and Booker work much better without the whole Beal addition, and Houston is in desperate need of another scoring option after getting beaten by the Luka Doncic-less Los Angeles Lakers in the first round of the playoffs.

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This story was originally published May 18, 2026 at 5:15 PM.