Movers and shake-ups in the NBA! Or, whither LeBron James?

Wasn’t that something?

After last week’s trades, in which some teams cleared the decks for this summer, and others, like the Lakers, stood pat because they’re already in great (?) shape, everything is now imperfectly clear.

We have a better idea of what the landscape will be, with Cleveland getting Antawn Jamison to help LeBron James, although he wanted Amare Stoudemire at first, and the Knicks getting their second maximum salary slot back after the shrinking cap had whittled them to 1 1/2 .

What we await are the events that will take place on that landscape that will decide everything.

In the meantime:

With the Cavaliers getting Jamison, James is staying for sure!

Owner Dan Gilbert and General Manager Danny Ferry deserve credit for messing with a red-hot team -- which they couldn’t bring themselves to do a year ago when Phoenix offered Shaquille O’Neal.

Of course, what happens if they fall on their faces short of the Finals, as they did last spring?

Tracy McGrady is about to take New York by storm!

Yeah, a cold drizzle, followed by two months of whimpering.

T-Mac couldn’t handle the pressure in Houston. How do you think he’ll do in Gotham, where the tabloids may soon be running pictures of him consorting with Martians?

Still, dumping Jared Jeffries’ money gives the Knicks two maximum slots!

After messing up everything else (not playing Eddy Curry, taking Jordan Hill over Brandon Jennings, Ty Lawson, Jrue Holiday, Eric Maynor and/or Darren Collison), this, at least, restores their direction.

Of course, if no one wants to play with Danilo Gallinari, Wilson Chandler, Curry and Toney Douglas, the only Knicks sure to be there, there’s always Carmelo Anthony in 2011 and Chris Paul in 2012, if they can hold off the villagers carrying torches and pitchforks.

With Caron Butler and Brendan Haywood, Dallas is back in the race!

They’ll help, but what happened to the Lakers and Nuggets?

With Kevin Martin, Houston is back in the race!

He’ll help, but what happened to the Lakers, Nuggets, Mavericks, Jazz, Thunder and Suns?

The Trail Blazers are back in the race with Marcus Camby!

For No. 7 or 8, anyway. It was a great move, because they could afford to move Steve Blake and Travis Outlaw . . . but there’s no getting out of their predicament, with their future still revolving around Greg Oden.

The Clippers have a maximum slot to woo James!

Or try to get Camby back, if LeBron breaks up in laughter.

With Dwyane Wade leading cheers, the Heat couldn’t land Amare Stoudemire, but Miami can still sign him this summer!

Or D-Wade and Amare can go play together in New York.

With the Suns welcoming Stoudemire back, they can work on a long-term deal to keep him from walking for nothing this summer!

However, owner Robert Sarver, who has money problems, not to mention a vision problem, having messed up the one Jerry Colangelo handed him, has dangled Stoudemire for a year and would have to bump up that two-year extension he just offered, by a factor of three.

With Butler and Jamison’s problem contracts gone, the Wizards can build toward a bright tomorrow!

Perhaps in this century!

They still have Gilbert Arenas’ biggest-problem-of-all contract, even if both sides should be amenable to a settlement, not to mention that of Javaris Crittenton.

Notes Yahoo’s Johnny Ludden: “Only in the NBA could two players . . . brandish guns, go to court, get suspended for the remainder of the season, embarrass both their franchise and the league, then have the team ship off nearly everyone else on the roster -- but them.”

Jettisoning John Salmons gives the Bulls a maximum slot to woo Chicago native Wade!

Let’s hope it goes better than 2000, when the Bulls had two max slots, and, according to their media guide, wanted “a pair of the summer’s elite free agents -- a group that included Tim Duncan, Grant Hill, Tracy McGrady and Eddie Jones. . . .

“However, Duncan re-signed with San Antonio, Hill accommodated his wife’s desires to go to Orlando and McGrady and Jones both opted to play near their hometowns.”

Jones actually agreed to terms with the Bulls, then signed with Miami while the Bulls were preparing to announce his arrival, after which they landed . . . Ron Mercer.

Maybe this time, someone’s wife will want to move to Chicago, or an area native, like Wade.

Of course, as any Illinois native (hello) can tell you, growing up in those winters doesn’t automatically mean yearning to get back to them.

Getting Salmons for bupkis was great for the Milwaukee Bucks.

On the other hand, how fortunate will they feel if Wade, Stoudemire or Joe Johnson winds up in Chicago in that slot they helped clear?

It’s not Vancouver GM Stu Jackson taking George Lynch’s $3-million salary off the Lakers’ hands so they could sign O’Neal in 1996, but check back this summer.

The Lakers, a mom-and-pop store among teams with Microsoft, Walmart, Comcast, et al., money, couldn’t afford Kirk Hinrich even if the Bulls had been willing to give him up for expiring contracts!

Didn’t mom and pop turn a $40-million-plus profit last season?

mark.heisler@latimes.com