Loyalty pays in Phoenix as Devin Booker inks a record max deal.

There's still confusion over who will run the Lakers and for how long.

Is Jalen Brown due for a bounceback season?

And are the Spurs doing enough to build around Victor Webbingyama?

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I'm Doug Branson, host of Lockdown Hornets and your shot clock Sherpa guiding you through the NBA's biggest stories every day with the help of lockdown's local experts.

And I've got two of the best with me, as always, from the Lockdown Nuggets

podcast and senior NBA writer for the Action Network. It's Matt Moore. Matt.

Find yourself somebody who loves you as much as the Phoenix Suns love, Devin Booker.

And from the Lockdown Bulls podcast, we've got Hayes, Hayes.

So Matt, you're trying to tell me that you don't think me and Doug love you? Is that what you're saying? That's crazy.

If you love me, you give me a half a billion dollars, Hayes. That's how that goes.

I can pay you in Skittles.

What's Max Skittles?

That's what I want to know.

Yeah, so today's Max deal of the day goes to Devin Booker, who just inked a two-year,

$145 million max extension with the Phoenix Suns, making him the highest paid player in the league by annual salary.

Matt will start with you, your reaction to the deal, particularly the two years part,

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