Monday Best: The latest, hottest and freshest NBA free agency and trade buzz

The news cycle in #thisleague appears determined to consume every last bit of July

Around-the-league NBA notes on a Monday?

Pushed back one day because we wanted our lengthy look below at what looms in record-setting Season No. 23 for LeBron James to carry the weekend?

Posted Monday evening right after Chris Paul's introductory news conference — actually his second career introductory presser — as an LA Clipper?

Chris Paul getting his first look Monday at his new locker at the Intuit Dome.

As it should be!

To the latest from my notebook on Paul's free agency, where things really stand with the future of Nikola Vučević in Chicago, some key restricted free agency updates on all the names you're interested in … plus a bit of recent under-the-radar trade chatter: