Mason Brings in 2025 Prospect Devin Booker for a Visit

Devin Booker, an athletic 2025 6’5 wing out of Philly school Cristo Rey, has been brought in for an official visit by Tony Skinn and the rest of the coaching staff.

George Mason is hosting 2025 G Devin Booker for an official visit beginning today. The 6’4 Philly native out of Cristo Rey and @KLowElite got his offer from the Patriots on June 24th. Coming off an OV with Duquesne this week. pic.twitter.com/5MJlpcplkL

— George Mason Recruiting (@GMURecruiting) August 29, 2024

When he’s not with Cristo Rey, Booker plays for K-Low Elite, an Adidas 3SSB team.

Devin is an unranked prospect everywhere, but he would comfortably be a three-star prospect if the raters got to him.

The 2025 Philly wing has offers from Mason, Fordham, Mississippi St., Temple, Albany, Drexel, Hofstra, Virginia Tech, Penn, La Salle, Florida Gulf Coast, High Point, Saint Louis, and Duquesne. You’ve got some high majors there, along with some A10 schools, and some quality CAA schools.

If you’re just going off the offer list, Booker is somewhere between a high level mid-major and a low level high-major recruit.

Booker took an official visit to Duquesne last week, and had an unofficial visit to La Salle a while back.

In 2024, in the six games that we have stats from on The Circuit with K-Low Elite, Booker averaged 14.2 points and 5.2 rebounds on 47.7% shooting from the field and 31.4% from three. You’d like his three-point shooting to be better than 31.4%, but the silver lining is that Devin made two-thirds of his twos. That is generally something that translates across levels.

I don’t have the shot data on where those twos came from, but for a guard, 66.7% is good no matter how you got it. The Tony Skinn guard/small wing has primarily been a guy who can finish at the rim while being good enough from three that you can’t leave him open. I think Booker follows that.

Devin made first team All-PJAA in 2023, which is the Penn-Jersey Athletic Association.

If you had any questions about his athleticism, here’s a dunk where Booker got UP.

Junior @devbooker0 of Cristo Rey (PA) with the big time slam😱 pic.twitter.com/n4wX7pjwef

— Rising Ballers Network (@dylan_lutey) January 24, 2024

Devin isn’t a head at the rim type of athlete, but he isn’t far behind.

Booker has a confident pull-up game, and while he generally shoots more threes than twos, Devin is good when he does take it to the basket.

There is definitely potential for the Philly wing to become a good three-level scorer in the A10.

I watched a little bit of K-Low Elite and Devin Booker’s game against DC Premier to see how he was on a possession-to-possession basis om the defensive end, as highlights and stats can’t really show you that.

Booker seems to be very good at tracking down and getting after loose balls, which is a good glue-guy trait.

His team played a matchup zone defense, and he seemed to maximize his zone. When they were defending a three-on-two fast break, Devin was bursty enough to be able to fly from the corner to the paint and force a contested shot.

Booker didn’t seem to be K-Low Elite’s point-of-attack defender, but I think he has the potential to do that in college.

The biggest thing I took away from a couple minutes of game footage was that Devin is a very twitchy athlete in terms of change of direction. It seems like there is no slowdown when he changes directions in a 180-degree manner, all of a sudden Booker is just going the other way extremely fast. That is a great attribute to have when you’re rotating on the perimeter and need to get to someone else’s man fast.

If I had to throw out a high-end comparison for him, I think a more wing-y version of Duquesne’s Tre Clark would fit. I don’t think he has the PG skills that Clark had with the Dukes, but I could see the scoring and defense ending up at a similar level.

Overall, Booker would be a very, very solid piece for Mason to get, with the potential upside of him being a star in a couple seasons. With the expanded scholarship spots coming with his class, there is less pressure on freshmen to be in the rotation instantly, giving them more room to grow in what would be their best path long-term.

In regard to depth chart/playing time, after the upperclassmen, his competition for playing time would be Bryson Cokley. They’re both smaller wings that could probably play both the two and three. Even if he lost the position battle against Cokley, I could see Booker getting a decent amount of run off the bench. This is all disregarding transfers in and out of the portal, so take any future lineup/playing time projections with a grain of salt.

Hopefully we will be welcoming Devin Booker into Mason Nation soon.