Is Devin Booker the next great NBA shooting guard?

Devin Booker signed a five-year, $158 million early extension with the Suns over the weekend. This is a typical quick extension after Year 3 for star young players; while some who have not watched much of the moribund Phoenix Suns over the last three years may be surprised by the numbers, Booker clearly deserves it. He averaged a shade under 25-5-5 last season on efficient shooting. He’s good!

In fact, despite being drafted No. 13 overall in 2015, he’s the third best player from that class right now, behind just Kentucky teammate Karl-Anthony Towns and Kristaps Porzingis. Both of those players should be inking max extensions soon, as well. No one else from that class is going to get that dough. A few players may yet get extensions, but nothing remotely this big.

The outstanding question for Phoenix as they lock up Booker is how good he can be. Right now he’s a fringe All-Star if you ignore that making the West pool, where Booker plays, is way more competitive than the East. (He might be an All-Star starter in the East.) Booker could score from the jump, but he’s gotten more efficient and turned into a really solid playmaker. The next step: cutting down on turnovers and bumping that three-point shooting percentage up a little higher (from 38 percent).

There is, of course, defense to contend with. That’s less of a concern for me right now. The Suns are absolutely awful, and have had nothing but coaching turmoil since before Booker arrived. There’s no basis for Booker to be good defensively. If he continues to be a minus on that end as Phoenix improves and pulls together some kind of defensive identity under Igor Kokoskov, then it becomes a concern. But right now, there’s no reason why Booker should be a passable defender. The Suns have run around lost and confused and totally overmatched for three years, through no fault of the 21-year-old Booker.

At that said, I’d bet Booker will make an All-NBA team — not just an All-Star team — on this newly signed contract. He feels like he could soon be better than C.J. McCollum and even Bradley Beal — not quite the best two-guard in the NBA (hi, James Harden) but in the top five.

We’re running out of lucrative homes for Isaiah Thomas, folks, and I’m getting worried. It turns out he may not have been remotely close to a deal with the Magic before Orlando got mixed up in a bizarre little financial trade with the Hornets and Bulls. That trade resulted in the Magic taking on Jerian Grant, which precludes them (according to people with access) from signing Isaiah.

He can’t go back to the Lakers or Celtics or Cavaliers or Suns or, probably, Kings (though the front office that let him go years ago has in fact left themselves). He’s made plenty of money in the NBA, but he’s never had that one generational wealth-creating massive contract, and he’s not guaranteed it next summer (unlike, say, DeMarcus Cousins), so taking a one-year mid-level flyer doesn’t seem attractive. But he might have to do it.

Or ... he could go to China for a year, make a boatload of money and win MVP, and show up for the NBA playoff stretch run and help a lucky team try to knock off the Warriors. The upside is he’d get to torture Jimmer Fredette again. The downside is Isaiah’s massive pride and how leaving the NBA even temporarily in his prime (a season removed from second team All-NBA honors!) would wound it.

ESPN reports the Thunder and Carmelo Anthony will find a way to part ways this summer. Here are four teams where he could land. Here’s Paul Flannery on Melo’s frustrating, brief tenure in OKC.

We kind of knew this was going to happen, but it’s still weird and sad: Tony Parker left the Spurs to sign with the Hornets. The Spurs are going to lose a lot of their on-court institutional knowledge. San Antonio was offering Parker just a one-year deal and no guaranteed minutes. He got more on both accounts in Charlotte.

BEEF HISTORY: Joakim Noah vs. Kevin Garnett.

The Mavericks need a new logo.

The Kings offered Zach LaVine $80 million over four years and ... the Bulls matched. I’ll have more on this later Monday.

In an extremely Grizzlies move, Memphis made a 4-year, $37 million offer to Kyle Anderson, and the Spurs decided not to match. An anachronistic but interesting player on an anachronistic but interesting team.

Three trade packages for Kevin Love.

Jordan Bell is too good for Summer League. Heck, Wendell Carter might be too.

Why Chris Paul’s long, expensive contract makes sense.

Whoops! The NBA had to stop selling LeBron Lakers jerseys for a minute because he hasn’t officially signed with the team. (He’s in Europe.)

No one knows basically anything about Kawhi Leonard’s health, or lack thereof.

And finally: Markelle Fultz gets a starring role at Summer League, but not in the way you’d think.

Be excellent to each other.