HOLMES: All right, I'm joined by Joe Carter, our friend from HLN Sports, now. NBA season is on hold, not a problem for Kobe Bryant.</s>JOE CARTER, HLN SPORTS ANCHOR: Definitely not a problem for Kobe and several other NBA players. But we're looking at lockout time at the NBA. We're at the 86th day. Preseason games have been axes. So far 43rd games are on the chopping block, more games become possibly. Training camps have been put on hold. They need a deal by mid-October if they want the NBA season to start on time, which would be November 1st. The owners are saying, hey, we're losing hundreds of millions of dollars. The players are saying, we want a bigger slice of the pie. We're heard this before, billionaires arguing with millionaires, like the NFL. But as far as Kobe Bryant goes, he has had a sweet offer right now from an Italian professional team saying. They're saying we'll pay you $6.7 million to come play for our club. You can play with us a month, a year, or game to game, and as soon as the NBA lockout is over, you can go back to the Lakers. We'll take you, after taxes, $600,000 a game, which breaks down to $200 a minute. Pretty good game when you consider Kobe used to live in Italy as a child, speaks the language fluently. But you have guys like Darren Williams who have been offered to play in Turkey. So expect to see more big time players being offered to play overseas.</s>HOLMES: I don't know if they'll get those deals. Joe, thank you. Quick break here, folks. We'll be right back.
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