NBA games lost yesterday: 9.

Total games missed: 108.

Earliest estimated date that season can start: Dec. 15.

Negotiations: The two sides met for two hours and agreed to conduct their first full negotiating session in three weeks on Friday.

Projected player salary losses (through Dec. 15): $250 million.

Today's best canceled game: Minnesota at Philadelphia. The latest installment of the mano-a-mano between Allen Iverson and Stephon Marbury, the point guards chosen first and second overall in the 1996 draft.

Pub Date: 11/18/98