NBA Cancels First Two Weeks of New Season Listen Download Embed Share Share this on Facebook (Opens in a new window) Share this on Twitter (Opens in a new window) Share this via Email Commissioner of the NBA, David Stern, announces the lockout at the Omni Hotel in New York, NY on June 30, 2011. ( Neilson Barnard/Getty Images / Getty ) Produced by PRI and WNYC