Three years ago today, we saw a 20 year old shooting guard from the Phoenix Suns named Devin Booker drop 70 points in a 130-120 road loss to the Boston Celtics. It was a game that didn’t really matter, The Suns were bound to have a lottery pick the upcoming summer, while the Celtics were trying to stay at the top of the Eastern Conference standings. Even though the Suns lost, it was one of the coolest scoring performances I had ever watched.

I was at TD Garden when Booker scored 70 points. My family likes to rent a suite at the Celtics game every year, and invite friends and family members to join us. We got to go in the Garden two hours early, which gave some of my friends and I to go down near court side and get some autographs. We got a really good spot, and were able to get a couple of Suns and Celtics players autographs.

Some of the guys we able to get were Jaylen Brown, Terry Rozier, Dragic Bender, Brian Scalabrine, and many other players that I can’t remember. Then one guy who we were all hoping to get his autograph walked out of the Suns tunnel to get some shots up. That guy was Devin Booker. Everyone started to come over to our side of the court to try and get his autograph. After he got his shots up, he started walking towards our way. We were all praying that Devin Booker would grab our hat and ticket, and sign his autograph. And lucky enough he did.

Not only that we were able to get his autograph, but my friends and I also got to take a very quick picture with him.

You can tell that Devin really wanted to go back to the locker room, but we had to prove to people that we met Devin Booker lol. That made our night successful getting his autograph, and we were able to enjoy watching the game.

We were all talking about how we met Devin Booker walking back to our seats, and I remember a friend of mine saying “What if he just goes off and scores 40 tonight?”

As we watched the game from our suite, The Celtics were absolutely dominating the Suns. The Celtics were up by 20+ and Isaiah Thomas was doing his thing like he always did in Boston. As the Celtics were dominating, Devin Booker was quietly putting together a nice half, as he had 19 points. After seeing that at halftime, we started to think there could be a chance he could score 40.

The second half starts, Celtics are still blowing them out, it is starting to get a little boring, but Devin Booker kept us awake the rest of the game. He eventually eclipsed the 30 point mark, and then in the early 4th quarter he scored his 40th point. We were all pretty impressed, and all the jokes starting coming out as “What if he scores 50?”.

Booker continued to stay hot, and scored his 50th point. At that point we were just amazed on how he was doing that. At that point, we thought he was going to be done as there just was no way he was going to score 60 points. He stayed in the game even longer, and scored his 60th point on the night. That moment was when everyone in the arena stood up to cheer on Booker in hopes maybe he could score 70. I remember Brad Stevens bringing back some of the starters to slow him down, but that just didn’t seem to work.

Booker stayed on fire, making every single shot he took shot on the floor. He passed the Sun’s all time scoring record and with about less than a minute away, he was two points away from 70 points. We were all screaming and yelling for Booker to score his 70th point. Everyone in the arena was doing the same thing.

Booker got the ball, and got fouled shooting the ball. He went to the line and sank two free throws to score his 70th point on the night. Everyone went crazy, Suns players were celebrating like they won an NBA title, and the Celtics ended winning the game by only ten points.

The Suns were really bad, but for Devin Booker to score over half the team’s 120 points was crazy. Booker walked out of TD Garden as a legend. A 20 year old scoring 70 points in the NBA was not heard of. I bet if he went into the game hoping to score a lot of points, I bet he could’ve 80 or 90 points. That night he was feeling it, and was one of my favorite Celtics games I had ever watch.

Even though the Suns lost, it is one of the most memorable games in Suns history.

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