How Dillon Brooks' call with Devin Booker sold him on the Suns winning
Dillon Brooks shares why a conversation with Devin Booker showed him that the Phoenix Suns would not be rebuilding in The Players' Tribune.
"(Expletive) that," Dillon Brooks responded when he heard the narratives that the Phoenix Suns were blowing it up when he was traded to Phoenix. "Let's win," Brooks continued. In an article he penned in The Players' Tribune on Tuesday, April 7, the ninth-year wing shared that this was his mentality.
"No Way in Hell They Wanna See Us" is what he titled the article. He wrote that he had approximately a week's notice that the Houston Rockets were working on a trade for then-Suns forward Kevin Durant, and that the Suns were willing to make the move only if they would receive Brooks in return. "Right away, that told me something about the franchise," Brooks said.
The first person Brooks called was Suns star Devin Booker, to ask him: "What we gotta do to flip this thing. How do we win? ” Whatever Booker told him sold him.
"I just knew right away, after talking to him," Brooks shared. " Yo, this can work. We can complement each other really well as leaders.