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Plus, everyone not named Davis, Irving or Thompson on this roster IS pretty young still, and it's plausible than any of them could be here long enough to get Flagg and the Mavs past the draft capital waste years, I think. 

I think this is very much the case.  Outside of 2027, everything else from 2028-2030 is either a swap or in 2029, the Lakers pick.  With Flagg around, there's a good chance the swaps don't even convey and the Lakers pick is better than what ours would have been in 2029 and a very high chance that at the very least, those swaps are only the difference between a handful of picks and not us dropping from like 4 to 28 which felt like what we were staring at (although heavily dependent on what is left on this roster after AD and Kyrie's next contract are up).

At that point we'll be working on trading late 2030's picks to build a new core around Flagg who will be turning 23 at the end of our draft capital waste years....which is still just mind boggling to me.  That is the era I'm most excited about, worried that this roster is too banged up all the time to get things across the finish line but we'll have another shot at the pig later on.  I'd personally like to punt on this Kyrie/AD era for that very reason so that we have a ton of flexibility to build around Flagg's timeline but because he like...just got his driver's license, his timeline feels so incredibly long that a million things could happen.