On August 1, 2015, Lon Babby will no longer be the head of the Phoenix Suns Basketball Operations department for the first time in 5 years.
When he stepped into the fray in the summer of 2010, he was handed the meat cleaver, given the nasty job of navigating the franchise through what was sure to be one of the most difficult periods in franchise history if not handled absolutely perfectly.
And to be sure, he didn't handle it perfectly.
"I don't give myself a pat on the back," he said recently. "I wish I could have accomplished more.