Amir Coffey’s name might ring a bell among Phoenix Suns fans in connection with Devin Booker.
The Suns acquired the seven-year backup guard along with Cole Anthony from Milwaukee for Phoenix’s Nigel Hayes-Davis and Nick Richards at the Feb. 5 trade deadline.
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On March 24, 2022, when the Suns played at the Denver Nuggets, Coffey’s picture was incorrectly posted instead of Booker’s on the Ball Arena Jumbotron during the Suns’ starting lineup introductions.
Coffey played for the Los Angeles Clippers at the time.
Booker’s controlled rage produced a 49-point season high, one of his greatest performances, and led the Suns to a 140-130 win.
In addition, the Suns clinched the 2022 playoffs’ No. 1 overall seed and got their 60th win, before they finished the regular-season with a franchise record 64.
“That was disrespectful,” Booker said at the time, according to a report by The Arizona Republic’s Duane Rankin.
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A Nuggets official told The Republic it was not intentional. The oversight was attributed to when the Clippers played there two days earlier and a glitch caused the incorrect photo to load after a correction attempt before the Suns-Nuggets game.
Booker believed that the mistake was deliberate, despite his bewildered chuckle when he saw it happen.
“I was laughing,” Booker said. “I know that one was purposefully done. Who did they put up there? Coffey from the Clippers? Yeah, it’s all fun and games, but we got the last laugh and every other laugh the last few games against them. So, it’s good marketing or good team they got over there to put that up, because it got me going for sure.”
The Suns won the season series against the Nuggets, 2-1.
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Presumably, that Jumbotron incident between Coffey and Booker is water under the bridge now that they will be teammates.
Coffey, a 6-foot-7 perimeter player, spent his first six NBA seasons with the Clippers (2019-25) before signing with the Bucks last summer after becoming an unrestricted free agent. He’s averaged 2.4 points and shot just 28% from 3 in 30 games with the Bucks.
Last season, Coffey averaged a career-high 9.7 points, making 40.9% of his 3s, in 72 games, also a career best.
This article originally appeared on Arizona Republic: Amir Coffey joins Suns, was part of ‘disrespectful’ Booker photo flap