NBA games lost yesterday: 13.

Total games missed: 401.

Earliest estimated date season can start: Feb. 1.

Projected player salary losses (through Feb. 1): More than $500 million.

Negotiations: Nothing scheduled, but the union is planning to make its own "final" offer to the owners.

Today's best canceled game: Nets at Wizards. The only game scheduled as the rest of the league's 29 teams were given a night off for New Year's Eve.

Pub Date: 12/31/98