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NBA Lockout Begins
NBA commissioner David Stern announces the NBA will lock out players when the collective bargaining agreement expires at 12:01 a.m. -
Players Overseas
National Basketball Players Association sends memo to players supporting their desires and plans to play basketball overseas -
Approved To Leave
Basketball's international federation gives approval for locked-out NBA players to compete overseas during the work stoppage -
First Meeting
Players and owners meet for the first time since lockout imposed. League files unfair labor charges with the National Labor Relations Board against players -
Second Meeting
Sides meet in New York in the second joint meeting since the lockout began to try and resolve lockout -
Starting Of Cancellations
League postpones training camps indefinitely and cancels the first week of preseason games -
Cancel first weeks
League scraps first two weeks of regular season -
Agree to Meet
Both sides agree to meet with a federal mediator George Cohen in an attempt to resolve the dispute -
50/50?
Two days of talks end with the NBA presenting a new offer to the players that includes a 50-50 split of basketball related incomes -
Trying To Get Deal Done
Talks quietly resume in a bid to get a deal done before December 25 and save the league's hugely popular Christmas Day lineup of games -
Finished
Owners and players announce they have reached a tentative agreement to end the 149-day lockout -
