The team announced on its website that it had signed the 6-10 Turiaf, who appeared in only 64 games for New York last season due to hurting knees. But Turiaf’s agent, Mark Bartelstein, says the deal hasn’t been completed, the Post reports. “There’s definitely a lot of insurance things that have to be worked out,” Bartelstein said, according to the paper.

Turiaf averaged 4.2 points, 3.2 rebounds, 1.4 assists and 1.1 blocks per game last season.

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“If we don’t go to Europe then let’s to start our own league,” Stoudemire said, HoopsWorld reports. “That’s how I see it. It’s very serious. Yeah. It’s very, very serious. It’s a matter of us coming up with a plan, blueprint and putting it together. So we’ll see how this lockout goes. If it goes one or two years, then we got to start our own league.”

When pressed for details, the six-time All-Star and 2003 rookie of the year, said that the players are focused on figuring out a way to end the lockout. “But if it doesn’t happen, what are we going to do? We can’t just sit around and not do anything,” he said, according to the site.

If a season does get underway, the 28-year-old Stoudemire is planning a training camp for his Knicks teammates.

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ESPN reports, however, that the players will meet Friday in Los Angeles to discuss their options after two days of negotiating ended up with no deal at the end of the day Monday.

Union president Billy Hunter “wants to begin meeting face-to-face with groups of players to explain the details of where the league and the union stand,” the site notes.

The last time Hunter met with players regionally, the site notes, it was in Las Vegas and about 40 players attended.

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Butler, of course, wasn’t involved in the playoffs since he went down with a knee injury in January. When the lockout ends, Butler will be an unrestricted free agent and he told FOX that Miami and Dallas are the two teams that interest him most.

“That’s pretty much it,” Butler said FOX. “I don’t want to throw no (other) teams out there. But I am open to any suggestions.”

In the 29 games the two-time All-Star played for the Mavs last season, the 31-year-old averaged 15 points, 4.1 rebounds, and 1.6 assists per game.

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However, Ginobili’s agent, Herb Rudoy, told the Express-News, via text, “Not true!” when asked if this was true.

“Bryant, who attended Tuesday’s negotiating session in New York between the NBA’s owners and players, was non-committal about his offer from Virtus Bologna,” the paper reports: “I don’t think there’s anything stopping it or pushing on it,” Bryant said, the Express-News notes. “I think it’s its own separate structure. The developments that it has to what’s going on here is that I have time to be able to play overseas. In terms of what’s holding up the deal is the same as any other deal.”

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The New York Post reports that Anthony said he had “arthroscopic surgery on his left knee and an elbow procedure” to help his “chronic bursitis” back in May. But the Knicks never announced the medical attention, the Post reports. Anthony told the paper that it was the first time he’s ever had surgery. He didn’t get back on the court till August.

His team, Team Melo, which also includes Chris Paul and LeBron James on the roster, lost, by the way, 131-122, to Team Philly, whose “Big 3″ are Hakim Warrick, Tyreke Evans, and Louis Williams.

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Since signing, Oden has played in 82 regular-season games, averaging 9.4 points, 7.3 rebounds, and 1.4 blocks per game. Now the Oregonian reports that Oden is ready to get out of Portland and “feels like he’ll sign the qualifying offer from the Blazers, play one season, then become an unrestricted free agent.”

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The team is “very interested in re-signing Battier,” the paper reports, but “this deal will come down to nothing but dollars and cents.”

The paper has heard that Battier would like a contract that pays him around $5 million annually as well as that “the Griz aren’t willing to pay that” to Battier.

The 33-year-old, two-time NBA all-defensive team member averaged 7.6 points, 4.5 rebounds, and 2.3 assists last season.

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But if the season doesn’t get going on time, the 33-year-old 13-time All-Star could be making much bigger bucks than that per game elsewhere. BolognaBasket.it reports that Virtus Bologna has offered Bryant $600,000 per game, as translated by CBS.

Bryant, of course, spent a chunk of his childhood living in Italy while his dad played pro there and is fluent in Italian and Spanish.

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New York City is the planned meeting place, the site notes, and the hope is to get together Wednesday and/or Thursday.

Training camps are supposed to open in two weeks so “both sides are feeling a heightened sense of urgency,” the site notes.

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