Devin Booker, currently the longest-tenured player for the Phoenix Suns in his 10th season, turned 28 years old on Wednesday.

It’s almost hard to believe that Booker was just 19 when he entered the NBA. Or that he’s put in almost a decade of time in the NBA. Or that in that time, he’s been a four-time All-Star, played in the NBA Finals, won two Olympic gold medals and averaged more than 22 points a game every season since his first.

Booker wasn’t made available to the media at Suns practice Wednesday, but the team celebrated the occasion. Guard Tyus Jones said the rookies sang happy birthday to Booker.

Suns head coach Mike Budenholzer said to be as accomplished as Booker is “pretty special.”

“Feel like he came out as a young draft pick and immediately started having an impact on the Suns and this organization,” Budenholzer said. “Started gathering accolades and All-Star Games, Olympics and finals. So yeah, it’s impressive what he’s done so far.”

Booker played in his 600th career NBA regular-season game on Oct. 25, and will reach 650 games (regular season and postseason) in his career Thursday night when the Suns play at the Los Angeles Clippers.

Budenholzer open to players’ ideas

Budenholzer said he hopes to be very open and collaborative with his players when it comes to input on ways to improve play.

“The more the players are talking, the more they’re engaged, it’s always better,” Budenholzer said. “Sometimes somebody has to make a decision in the room. I may ask Kevin (Durant) if he wants to be that guy. But they’ve been awesome.

I think when they’re engaged and they have input, I think just naturally they may want to make those things, whatever we’re working on, work better.”

Budenholzer said he continues to watch and listen closely and learn from his players.

“I don’t ever want to stop, should never stop,” he said.

Cutting down on turnovers

The Suns turned the ball over 39 times in their first two games, then cut that to 22 over the next two. Jones said the team has sharpened some things on offense.

“It’s still early. We’re figuring each other out, we’re figuring out different defensive coverages, things like that,” the team’s starting point guard said. “So just building but also understanding that some of those were just careless turnovers or not being as sharp as we need to be. The fact that we corrected that is a good sign, and we’ve just got to understand that that’s where we want to be as a team.”

At 15.3 turnovers per game, the Suns are tied for 14th-lowest in the NBA but are averaging 13 in the past three games.