Posted by Sabrina B. @gametimegirl

Kobe Bryant has been offered $6.7 million to play basketball for an Italian team, appealing to his childhood memories of growing up in the country.

Virtus Bologna general manager Massimo Faraoni told The Associated Press he’s been on conference calls between Bryant’s agent, Rob Pelinka, Bologna president Claudio Sabatini and main sponsor Canadian Solar, which would provide the cash for such a deal.

The Los Angeles Lakers superstar spent part of his childhood in Italy while his father, Joe “Jellybean” Bryant, played in the country. Kobe Bryant also speaks Italian.

Virtus has given Bryant four different contract options, stretching from the one-year deal to two-month and one-month options, and a per-game deal that would come out to $739,640 per home game.

The club is offering the deals in case there’s an NBA lockout this season. The NBA will announce Friday it will postpone the start of training camp and the opening slate of exhibition games after a negotiating session Thursday between players union executive director Billy Hunter and commissioner David Stern ended without a labor agreement or progress toward one soon, league sources told ESPN The Magazine’s Ric Bucher.

–ESPN