Not all NBA teams made out in trade deals

Not everyone made out

The Cavaliers got Antawn Jamison in their attempt to keep LeBron James . . . the Knicks got a second maximum slot in their attempt to steal LeBron . . . the Rockets turned Tracy McGrady into Kevin Martin . . . and the Wizards sent players everywhere, apparently because it felt good.

Nevertheless, things weren’t so eventful everywhere. Let’s check out some prominent backwaters, er, teams:

Lakers -- The Bulls, intent on creating a maximum salary slot, asked the Lakers if they’d take Kirk Hinrich for the expiring deals of Adam Morrison and Jordan Farmar.

The Lakers, dismayed at projections whittling last season’s $40-million profit to $15 million, said they would take Hinrich’s $8.5-million-a-year deal if they could dump Sasha Vujacic’s $5.2-million-a-year deal.

Instead, the Bulls traded John Salmons, their preferred option. We’ll never know if they would’ve pulled the trigger on this deal -- which is good for the Lakers, who might have rued passing it up if anything went wrong this season.

Phoenix --Having dangled their 27-year-old perennial All-Star out the window for a calendar year, the Suns welcomed Amare Stoudemire back . . . again!

A year ago, owner Bob Sarver reportedly asked only for expiring contracts and made calls, personally.

Last spring, they agreed to a deal with Golden State that included its No. 1 pick -- which the Warriors pulled back when Stephen Curry fell to them.

Stoudemire said he was fine with whatever happened, “winning a championship for some teams that were inquiring for me” -- like Cleveland -- “or [making] the playoffs, which is what we have here.”

This should end this summer when Amare is free to walk, so the Suns can move on to dismantling the rest of the franchise.

Miami -- Dwyane Wade was excited about the prospect of getting Stoudemire, which reportedly didn’t happen because the Heat wouldn’t give up Michael Beasley, the talented knucklehead who is not a Wade fave.

The debate reportedly goes to the top with owner Micky Arison, normally a supporting, lavish, Jerry Buss-style owner, in Beasley’s corner.

President Pat Riley, who’s not into knuckleheads and has a better idea of what’s going on in Wade’s head, was reportedly more willing to see what they could get.

With a full salary slot of their own, and as much prospect of luring a big free agent as losing Wade, the situation is what you’d call fluid.

Philadelphia --If the Wizards can give away all their players, why can’t they?

Reportedly projecting a $30-million loss, with Allen Iverson at point guard in a tense “rebuilding project” (Coach Eddie Jordan vs. Elton Brand, Jordan vs. media, Brand vs. Mareese Speights, AI1 vs. AI2, Andre Iguodala), the 76ers . . . stood pat?

Actually, they did trade Royal Ivey for Primo Brezec, possibly to justify the cellphone bill.

Said third-year GM Ed Stefanski a month ago of his first-year coach:

“Everyone, coaches, players, and myself, and I’m going to pinpoint myself, we’re all accountable on this whole thing. We review daily. I don’t think there’s a certain time you say, ‘Change.’ Everyone in the organization is accountable, and I’m accountable to upstairs.”

Now they can still work it out, together!

-- Mark Heisler