"The way is being cleared for Manu Ginobili to play for Argentina in the FIBA Americas tournament in Mar del Plata, Argentina later this summer.

A report in the FIBA Daily newsletter on Thursday quotes German Vaccaro, president of the Argentine Basketball Confederation, about his optimism that all the NBA players who have been part of the Argentine team for more than a decade — Ginobili, Luis Scola, Andres Nocioni and Carlos Delfino — will have their NBA contracts insured in time to begin training in before the end of July.

"In our case, I'm optimistic that Argentina will have all their players to play in the tournament we are hosting," Vaccaro said in the article.

With the NBA lockout on, player contracts no longer are insured by individual teams, dramatically increasing the cost to national teams seeking to insure them."