Wonder if we can flip Beal to the Mavs for Kyrie. Although this is a bad move on paper, with Kyrie being out and us needing to think more longterm, perhaps we can move Beal + draft picks (2025, 2029) for Kyrie. We can then probably move Kyrie if he decides to come back next season, before the trade deadline for some sort of FRP/expiring contract package to a contender.
This clears out a lot of capspace for us in 2026. You can then trade KD for some draft picks and expiring contracts, and really begin a real re-build, geared towards the 2026 and 2027 offseasons.
Mavs may do it because Nico is Nico, but also because they need to get a starting guard with Kyrie out. They don't have enough playmaking. Beal/Flagg/AD gives them some playmaking to balance out the PG duties. As it stands their best ballhandler may be Flagg, a rookie. The 2025 pick would help them get more longtern pieces around Flagg, as their window has changed now with Flagg coming in. They don't need to absolutely win now, as they did with before the situation with getting Flagg.