The 2025 offseason has been a sobering one for Phoenix Suns' owner Mat Ishbia. Despite immediately promising the world upon buying the franchise, the reality of trying to build a championship winner in the short-term proved to be a much more difficult proposition than he imagined.
Which led to the organization changing course this summer, with Kevin Durant and Bradley Beal departing as the Suns now look for a more sustainable way to win it all. For what it is worth in a recent interview Ishbia himself uttered the one sentence that proves he has learned his lesson, albeit one that cost him a lot of money.