Eight seconds to go. Paul on the dribble gets around Kleba to the baseline. Now back to Booker, right wing three, on the way. Good for Devin Booker. He canned it with one and a half seconds to go. The sons take the one point lead. superstar doing what he does best.

In a conference where LeBron and Kauai and Luca and Steph suck up all the airtime, you may have

forgotten about a 24-year-old in Phoenix who can score as well as any of them, maybe even better.

Today, Michael Wilbon joins us to explain where Devin Booker came from, where he's going,

and how he won the respect of his elders around the league.

I'm Pablo Torre. It's Wednesday, February 10th.

This is ESPN Daily.

Mike, it is an honor to have you on the pod.

Thank you for being here, man.

Thanks for having me.

Appreciate it.

Mike Wilbon is the co-host of Pardon the Interruption and one of the most respected basketball

voices in America. His latest cover story on Devin Booker is up now on ESPN.com.

So Mike, I've got to begin here by noting that you are very unapologetically old school, right?

Like your Rolodex, it's full of names like Michael and

Irvin and Charles. And I also should note that you're also more skeptical of millennials

like me more than anyone else I know. So how is it that you got legitimately excited to spend

quality time with a guy who was born in October 1996,

like right on the cusp of Gen Z in Devin Booker?

Well, one of the first things you'll notice, if you see this piece, whether it's the

broadcast piece or the written piece, you're going to notice that Devin Booker embraces the notion of

old head. Old soul, old anything.

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