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Cavs Deal Big at Deadline, Retool the Roster

Wine & Gold Make Three Deals; Get Younger, More Athletic

For a group of now-former Cavaliers, at least they went out with a bang.

Just hours after LeBron James splashed home a game-winner in an overtime thriller against Minnesota, the Wine & Gold pulled off an unprecedented midseason facelift for a defending Conference champion in a flurry of deadline day moves – the biggest of which sending Isaiah Thomas, Channing Frye and their own first rounder to the Lakers in exchange for Larry Nance Jr. and Jordan Clarkson.

The hits kept coming.