This summer was supposed to be an opportunity for Jeremy Hazell to impress clubs with his play for an N.B.A. summer league team and earn an invitation to a training camp in the fall. From there, he would have worked to earn a spot on the team and the guaranteed contract that would go with it.

Instead, Hazell, a former star guard at Seton Hall, is at home in Harlem, locked out of the league he dreams of playing in, waiting and weighing his options as the N.B.A. heads into an uncertain future.

A job overseas could be Hazell’s best option.

“It is definitely frustrating just because when I come out my senior year, there’s a lockout,” said Hazell, who finished his four-year career at Seton Hall third on the program’s career scoring list with 2,146 points but was not selected in the N.B.A. draft last month. “But it’s just the process you got to go through. I can’t stop it, so whatever I got to do to get in the league or to go overseas, me and my agent are going to work on that.”

Just being able to pursue his basketball dream marks something of an achievement for Hazell. He was shot in the right armpit during an attempted robbery on Christmas night last year when visiting his family. He had already been out of the lineup after breaking his left wrist in Seton Hall’s third game of the season on Nov, 18, but returned and still managed to play in 15 more games.