The NBA's longest-running active trade saga has outlasted all of free agency

Chicago's Zach LaVine conundrum leads off our latest around-the-league notes compilation that is filled with NBA chatter

Around-the-league NBA notes on a Friday?

On the same Friday that will feature the Paris Olympics' Parade of Nations?

As it should be!

To the latest chatter from my notebook ... leading off with the Chicago Bulls and their ongoing Zach LaVine conundrum: