Everything I said about moving vets not on the Flagg 2nd contract competitive timeline for picks and younger/expiring parts applies here with the addition of an AD trade to turn him into $54m in expiring deals and a valuable, lightly protected, distant first-round pick from the Clippers. Rebuild the asset pile, stock up on young players in the 2026 draft, and let Cooper develop so that you won't care about whatever lottery pick you give Charlotte in a relatively weak 2027 draft or whatever mid-teens pick you give OKC in 2028.