Sunday was a tough one for the Indiana Pacers. After all the losing, all the inverse standings watching, and all the Tankathon spins throughout the season, the Pacers officially lost their 2026 first-round pick when it conveyed to the Los Angeles Clippers following the NBA Draft Lottery. Indiana needed to stay in the Top 4 to keep the selection, and when that didn’t happen, the pick that so many fans have dreamed about, vanished. But listening to Kevin Pritchard speak afterward, it’s pretty clear the Pacers aren’t sitting around feeling sorry for themselves for making the deal for Ivica Zubac. “If you look at where we are now, we have some flexibility in terms of signing a free agent,” Pritchard said. “We have some flexibility, we have five of our next six draft picks. Some of those trades where it’s four and five and six picks, they’re out, they’re done, they’ve shoved their chips in and they’re done.…