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Devin Booker, Tyler Ulis Make Cameos at Nike Academy

Earlier this week, Nike custom built a three-court basketball complex within a private hanger at a Los Angeles airport to host many of the country's top high school and college players.

The annual event, aptly named the Skills Academy, featured several NBA players dropping by to either speak to or scrimmage with the amateurs. Among that group of pro visitors were none other than Suns guards Devin Booker and Tyler Ulis.

According to reporters on scene, the two Phoenix players joined a team that included the likes of Detroit's Stanley Johnson, Orlando's Aaron Gordon and Los Angeles' Jordan Clarkson and Julius Randle.

Here's what Sports Illustrated staffer Luke Winn had to say about Booker specifically: "Former Kentucky one-and-doner Devin Booker was the best shooting guard on the floor in the scrimmages. At 19, Booker is still younger than most of the college campers, and the progress he's made since leaving Kentucky—he’s added serious bulk and become a complete scorer—leads me to believe he would have been a national player of the year candidate had he stuck around for a couple of years in Lexington. We only got to see him as a catch-and-shoot role player in college."

Check out some other highlights from the event below: