Luke went from a roster afterthought, to a starter and back to irrelevancy within the span of this 82 game season.
In preseason, Luke Babbitt was in competition with John Salmons and Darius Miller for the starting shooting forward position for the New Orleans Pelicans. Unfortunately, all three of the players performed poorly enough that Monty Williams was forced instead to start Tyreke Evans at the 3.
However, opportunity would soon present itself again after Eric Gordon went down with a shoulder subluxation that resulted in a partially torn labrum.