Hence, as is always the case when middling teams have no clear path but one star player on the roster... Devin Booker will be tossed in trade talks all year long. And my response to that is, simply: If this team can't figure out how to build consistently competent rosters around Devin Booker, what on Earth makes you think they'll be able to build competent rosters without Devin Booker? Does Mat Ishbia want to be remembered as the guy who traded Devin Booker? Quite the opposite — he's embraced the desert and the numerous iterations of teams he's played on without much more than a peep. Even if, somewhat miraculously, the Suns made out well by hypothetically trading Booker... they would still have traded Booker.