"Fresh off a star turn for France at last month's EuroBasket tournament, Spurs point guard Tony Parker spent Saturday afternoon in a rented gym in Alamo Heights, conducting what he hopes will be the first of many eponymous basketball clinics to come.

Some 1,800 miles away at roughly the same time, inside a luxury hotel in midtown Manhattan, NBA owners and players were locked in a collective bargaining meeting that will in large part determine Parker's next move.

Training camp in South Texas? Or the south of France?

Should the news coming out of New York be bad, and the lockout prolonged, Parker says he's prepared to open the season playing for ASVEL, the French professional team he co-owns.

"If the sense is we're going to start in two weeks, I'm not going to go over there," Parker said. "If they tell me we're not going to start until January then, yeah, I might go play.""