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Danny Green signs with Slovenian team during lockout

Spurs swingman Danny Green has signed with Slovenian team Union Olimpija for the upcoming season.

Euroleague.net reports that . There is no word whether Green has an out-clause to return to the NBA in case the lockout is settled for the team, which is based in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and competes in the Premier A Slovenian League, the Adriatic League and the Euroleague.

Green tweeted that he would“if (the) organization wants him back.”

He will play with 2011 Spurs second-round draft pick Davis Bertans.  

Green showed flashes of promise late in the season for the Spurs, averaging 5.1 points per game in eight games late in the season. Additionally, Green was on the Spurs’ roster during the playoffs against Memphis, scoring five points in seven playoff minutes against the Grizzlies.

After that strong finish, Green was expected to get a legitimate shot to make next season’s roster after the lockout ends.

Green will become the second player on the Spurs’ roster at the end of the season and the 14th NBA player to commit to an overseas deal during the lockout. Backup point guard Chris Quinn on a one-year, $1 million contract. 

Backup small forward Steve Novak also has hinted that he could play in Russia or Spain, although he has not announced a new team.

Arenas hopes to block former girlfriend from VH1′s ‘Basketball Wives’

Orlando guard Gilbert Arenas is determined that his former live-in girlfriend Laura Govan won’t be able to air her secrets of her relationship on VH1′s reality series “Basketball Wives.”

Arenas has filed a motion seeking an injunction against the television series, hoping to keep his former fiance Laura Govan off the series in the upcoming season. Govan is the mother of four of Arenas’ children.

With less than a month before the show’s Aug. 29 premier, Arenas  is to keep Govan off the show, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

He joins some pretty select company. Chris Bosh already has sued the makers of the show and Dwight Howard and Shaquille O’Neal have threatened litigation. 

Govan likely has some juicy gossip about her former partner. It will be interesting if she ever has a chance to dish any of  it if she can appear in the show’s fourth season.