The second trade is a three-team deal with Utah and Sacramento that will send Cleveland’s Iman Shumpert and Utah’s Joe Johnson to Sacramento along with a 2020 second-round pick via Miami and $3.2 million in cash considerations, with Sacramento’s Hill and Utah’s Hood going to Cleveland and the Cavaliers’ Jae Crowder and Derrick Rose joining the Jazz. The third trade, to accommodate Wade’s wishes to rejoin the team that drafted him, will send Wade back to Miami for a heavily protected future second-round pick.

The succession of moves, however, does not come without great risk for the Cavaliers and their first-year general manager, Altman, whose trade with the Lakers could help Los Angeles immensely in its expected pursuit of LeBron James in free agency this summer.

The Lakers are projected to have about $50 million in salary-cap space this summer after shedding the contracts of Clarkson and Nance. That figure could increase to the $70 million range if the Lakers are successful in finding a trade home for Julius Randle between now and July 1 and waiving and stretching the salary of the veteran swingman Luol Deng, which would give them more than sufficient cap space to pursue both James and Paul George.

The Cavaliers, though, clearly felt as if they had no alternative but to swing multiple trades on deadline day to change the atmosphere within their locker room to try to save their current season, sending a powerful message to James in the process about their intent to persuade the Akron, Ohio, native to stay with his home-state team when he becomes a free agent July 1.