“Most definitely,” he said in a news conference after the game. “A place that I didn’t want to leave. My first time — I don’t want to sound too dramatic, but I will — to be kicked out of a place.”

Kevin Durant buried a game-winning 3-pointer with just under four seconds remaining to lift the Houston Rockets past his former team, the Phoenix Suns, 100-97 at home Monday.

Booker took the late inbounds pass and drilled the long 3-pointer over Alex Caruso, shaking a season-long slump from long range.