Calipari: Booker's 70-point game showed up Kentucky's win over UCLA
As Kentucky was taking down fellow blue blood UCLA in the Sweet 16 on Friday night, former Wildcat Devin Booker of the Phoenix Suns scored 70 points against the Boston Celtics.
Head coach John Calipari, always a big supporter of his former players, was happy for Booker after he found out, but couldn't help poking some fun as well.
“I’ve got to shout out to Devin Booker," Calipari said in his postgame press conference, as shared by Joe Mussatto of SECCountry.com. "Ms. Veronica, his mother, hit me today, wishing me luck, and I said I’m so proud of your son, and he goes for 70 tonight. How do you get 70? Like he showed up our team. We just have a great win and they’re going to be talking about Devin Booker all night now.”
Playing one year at Kentucky, and never starting a game, Booker was taken by the Suns in the first round of the 2015 NBA draft, 13th overall, after averaging 10 points in just over 21 minutes a game in Lexington.
In his second season in the NBA, Booker is averaging 21.6 points and shooting 36.4 percent from behind the arc.