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NBA forced to cancel games

NEW YORK — No labor deal, no training camps and no telling what else the NBA could lose.

The league will cancel training camps and some exhibition games Friday after failing to reach a new collective bargaining agreement with its players, a person with knowledge of the plans told The Associated Press on Thursday on condition of anonymity because the league had yet to announce its plans.

Training camps were expected to begin Oct. 3, and the exhibition openers were set for Oct. 9.

But the cancellations became unavoidable after another meeting failed to end the lockout, which began July 1.

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