NBA lockout

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The NBA lockout may refer to any of the four lockouts in the history of the National Basketball Association:

• The 1995 NBA lockout, which lasted for three months before the 1995–96 season.{{cite news |title=NBA Lockout Chronology |date=January 6, 1999 |agency=Associated Press |work=sportsillustrated.cnn.com |url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/basketball/nba/news/1999/01/05/lockout_chronology/ |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120214004903/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/basketball/nba/news/1999/01/05/lockout_chronology/ |url-status=dead |archivedate=February 14, 2012}}
• The 1996 NBA lockout, which lasted for a couple of hours before the 1996–97 season.
• The 1998–99 NBA lockout, which lasted for more than six months and forced the 1998–99 season to be shortened to 50 regular season games per team and that season's All-Star Game to be canceled.
• The 2011 NBA lockout, which lasted for five months and forced the 2011–12 season to be shortened to 66 regular season games per team.