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(Reuters) - The National Basketball Association (NBA) said on Friday it had canceled another two weeks of its regular season with no end in sight to a bitter labor dispute that has locked out players for nearly four months.

The decision marks the third time the league has canceled games due to the lockout, having already scrapped the preseason and the first two weeks of the 2011-12 regular season that was set to begin on November 1.

(Reporting by Mark Lamport-Stokes in Los Angeles; Editing by Julian Linden)