Devin Booker's run with Phoenix Suns unlike anyone in 2015 draft class

Phoenix Suns All-Star Devin Booker rocking No. 15 in paying homage to his father, Melvin Booker, after wearing No. 1 for his first 11 NBA seasons isn’t a dramatic change for him.

“I just feel like, you know, where it all started,” said Booker at the team's media day last month. Booker's dad wore No. 15 in college at Missouri.

“It's not a foreign number to me. Even walking around downstairs, everyone was saying it's going take some time to get used to, but when I look in the mirror, the first pictures I've seen of me wearing it, I feel back at home. So, feels like where it first started,'' he said.

Booker is turning 30-years old on Oct. 30. He’s more than good with it.

“I'm looking forward to it,” Booker said. “I still feel young. Yeah, I feel like

30 is one of those milestone years, so, you know, I feel something good cooking.”

Booker is the only player from the 2015 NBA Draft still with the same franchise.

Only 13 of the 60 players taken in the 2015 draft are still in the league.

First round (11 players): New York Knicks big Karl Anthony Towns (1^st overall pick); Golden State Warriors forward Kristaps Porziņģis (4^th); Cleveland Cavaliers forward Mario Hezonja (5^th); Milwaukee Bucks big Myles Turner (11^th); Minnesota Timberwolves forward Trey Lyles (12^th); Phoenix Suns guard Devin Booker (13^th); Indiana Pacers forward Kelly Oubre Jr. (15^th); Miami Heat big Bobby Portis (22^nd); Denver Nuggets guard Tyus Jones (24^th); Pacers forward Larry Nance Jr. (27^th); and Los Angeles Lakers big Kevon Looney (30^th).

Booker, the Suns all-time leading scorer, leads every player in his 2015 draft class in career points with 18,120 followed by Towns (16,384), D'Angelo Russell (11,132), Porzingis (10,372) and Turner (9,877).

Second round (2): Charlotte Hornets guard Pat Connaughton (41^st) and Chicago Bulls guard Norman Powell (46^th).

Hezonja is in training camp with the Cleveland Cavaliers after last playing in the NBA in 2019-20 with the Portland Trail Blazers.

The remaining 47 players drafted in 2015 aren’t currently in the NBA.

First round (19): D’Angelo Russell (2^nd), Jahlil Okafor (3^rd), Willie Cauley-Stein (6^th), Emmanuel Mudiay (7^th), Stanley Johnson (8^th), Frank Kaminsky (9^th), Justise Winslow (10^th), Cameron Payne (14^th), Terry Rozier (16^th), Rashad Vaughn (17^th), Sam Dekker (18^th), Jerian Grant (19^th), Delon Wright (20^th), Justin Anderson (21^st), Rondae Hollis-Jefferson (23^rd), Jarell Martin (25^th), Nikola Milutinov (26^th), R.J. Hunter (28^th) and Chris McCullough (29^th).

Second round (28): Cedi Osman (31^st), Montrezl Harrell (32^nd), Jordan Mickey (33^rd), Anthony Brown (34^th), Willy Hernangómez (35^th), Rakeem Christmas (36^th), Richaun Holmes (37^th), Darrun Hilliard (38^th), Juan Pablo Vaulet (39^th), Josh Richardson (40^th), Olivier Hanlan (42^nd), Joe Young (43^rd), Andrew Harrison (44^th), Marcus Thornton (45^th), Artūras Gudaitis (47^th), Dakari Johnson (48^th), Aaron White (49^th), Marcus Eriksson (50^th), Tyler Harvey (51^st), Satnam Singh (52^nd), Sir'Dominic Pointer (53^rd), Dani Díez (54^th), Cady Lalanne (55^th), Branden Dawson (56^th), Nikola Radičević (57^th), J.P. Tokoto (58^th), Dimitrios Agravanis (59^th) and Luka Mitrović (60^th).

Milutinov, Vaulet, Hanlan, Thornton, Gudaitis, White, Eriksson, Harvey, Singh, Pointer, Díez, Lalanne, Radičević, Tokoto, Agravanis and Mitrović never played a regular season game in the NBA. Russell recently joined the Shanghai Sharks and Payne signed with Anadolu Efes S.K.

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