NBA lockout: Preseason games cancelled, David Stern sets deadline to save start of regular season

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The first two weeks of the 2011-12 NBA season are now in jeopardy after owners and players met for more than four hours on Tuesday in New York and promptly broke off negotiations on a new collective bargaining session that would end the lockout.

NBA Commissioner David Stern and deputy commissioner Adam Silver announced the cancellation of the final 114 preseason games and set Monday as the deadline to save the start of the regular season. But the possibility that the league will lose regular-season games for the first time since the lockout-shortened season in 1998-99 became more likely when the NBA and the players' union failed to come closer on an agreement and left the meeting without scheduling another bargaining session.

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Del Quentin Wilber 05 Oct, 2011

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