The Melbourne Tigers will not let the roadblocks, and an insurance fee reportedly worth $500,000 that stopped the Sydney Kings from acquiring Andrew Bogut, deter them from enquiring about the centre's availability and potentially seriously chasing the Milwaukee Bucks big man as a replacement for the departed Patty Mills. Or so they say.

The Tigers were not oblivious to the attention the Kings received in their pursuit of Bogut, even though the chase ended  unsuccessfully. They might try the same tactic - pushing a potential Bogut signing - to boost tickets sales ahead of their Friday night clash, coincidentally, against the Kings.

Bogut is owed $39million over the next three years by the Milwaukee Bucks, an amount of money that is difficult to get insured because Bogut cannot risk injury playing outside the NBA and then failing a physical when, after the NBA lockout ends, he reports back to the Bucks. Plus there are a lot more bumps to get over to work out a deal.

After the Kings were unsuccessful in their bid to get Bogut on court in a purple uniform, Bruce Kaider, Bogut's manager, tweeted, "I am sorry to say we have been unable to rectify the outstanding issues on Andrew Bogut's insurance with FIBA."

So unless there has been a miraculous turn of events that no one is aware of, or that no one has reported, Bogut is still unable to get his contract insured for many reasons.

But of course there is nothing wrong with the Tigers checking in with Bogut and laying down some possible scenarios. If for nothing more than a little hype and a couple of pages in the newspaper, plus some face time on TV.

One interesting note is that from the NBA's twitter account on November 13th, it was tweeted that "If decertification occurs, players' contracts would become void".

The NBA Players Association decertified on November 14th.

The NBA's case to void all contracts has been taken to a judge in the Southern District of New York, but according to Andrew Brandt on ESPN: "I would find it very unlikely that the Court would agree with the NBA's position (on voiding contracts)."

There is no need to get your hopes up. Bogut will not suit up in the NBL with the Melbourne Tigers, it's simply not going to happen. But it's a fairytale that the Tigers might push for a few days.