• July 1, 2011: The lockout begins.
• September 23, 2011: The NBA canceled training camp, which was to begin October 3, and the first week of preseason games, which were to run … See more

Initial months
The lockout was officially started by the owners on July 1, 2011, during which teams could not See more

Olympics
Although the 2012 Olympic men's basketball tournament was then more than a year away, qualifying tournaments in all five of FIBA's continental zones were to be held in the Northern Hemisphere summer of 2011 (the … See more

After the previous lockout, which shortened the 1998–99 season from 82 to 50 games, a six-year deal between the owners, led by commissioner David Stern, and the players, led by director Billy Hunter and president Patrick Ewing of the labor union See more

Going overseas
The players union encouraged players to find work overseas, hoping owners would offer better deals if they saw players having more options. See more

The NBA revised the schedule to play two preseason games and a 66-game regular season schedule per team rather than the standard seven … See more

• Suspension of the 2019-20 NBA season See more