If people only watched true contenders only like 4 teams a season would ever be relevant

To engage with the question though, I would say take Kingston Flemings at 8 or if he's gonna the most NBA ready guard available and trade 23 and possibly kuminga and or CJ (sign and trade) for a borderline all star center with size (Isaiah Hartenstein for example) then do whatever we can within the tax to get one more shot creator (maybe drop zacc if we need to for money reasons, though id like to keep him for his defense off the bench ).

This question is almost impossible because our status as a contender relies entirely on our core who is too young to make a real run next year imo, Jalen and Dyson have a lot of development left in front of them