Back-To-Back-To-Back Every franchise, at some point in the campaign, will play three games in three nights. There will be 42 back-to-back-to-backs in all. If that sounds a lot, 66 triples had...

The 2011-12 N.B.A. season schedule was finally unveiled, with 66 games crammed into a shortened season. Some teams will play on three consecutive nights, others will play five games in six nights.

NBA Lockout by the (Big) Numbers $100 million: The city of Orlando projects $100 million in economic impact from hosting the 2012 NBA All-Star Game. Losing the game would have been devastating for ...

Management vs. employee. Authority vs. subordinate. But also, power vs. power. The 149-day lockout was mostly about money and partly about competitive balance, but with a subtext of control. ...

After its second-longest labor crisis ever, the basketball league and its players reached an agreement under which a shortened season would begin on Christmas Day.

When the NBA lockout wasn't settled, the players disbanded and sued the league and Boston Celtics power forward Kevin Garnett started missing his $833,333 bi-monthly paychecks. But the prospect of ...

Negotiations to end the N.B.A. lockout have quietly resumed, with the goal of reaching a deal in time to stage a 66-game season that would start Christmas Day.

Lawyers representing two groups of N.B.A. players have decided to merge their lawsuits against the league in the hope of expediting a resolution.

Toronto city councillors are joining the chorus of politicians who want the NBA to get back to work for the sake of sagging urban economies. Last month, 14 mayors in the United States sent an open ...

Big media companies are likely to feel the chill, with months of empty television time that would typically be filled with N.B.A. games. ESPN and ABC, owned by the Walt Disney Company, and Time Warner...

The players’ union formally disbanded and declared it would take its standoff with the league’s owners into federal court, pushing the league as close as it has ever been to losing an entire season of...