Lakers guard Luka Doncic and Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo lead the Western and Eastern Conferences, respectively, in the first returns of fan voting for the All-Star Game, NBA Communications tweets.
Doncic leads all players with 1,249,518 votes. The top five from the Western Conference includes Nuggets center Nikola Jokic, Warriors guard Stephen Curry, Thunder guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Spurs big man Victor Wembanyama.
Joining Antetokounmpo among the top five vote-getters in the Eastern Conference are Sixers guard Tyrese Maxey, Knicks guard Jalen Brunson, Pistons guard Cade Cunningham and Cavaliers guard Donovan Mitchell.
Fans voting represents 50% of the vote to determine the five players from each conference to be named as starters for the All-Star Game, with current NBA players and a media panel accounting for 25% each. This year, All-Stars are being selected without regard to position.
A newly-created, round-robin tournament featuring a USA vs. World format will be held Sunday, Feb. 15 at the Intuit Dome, the new home of the Clippers.
This whole process seems so stupid now.
You vote for 5 players, no positions anymore, then media and players make up the rest of the vote. Then Adam Silver goes through and takes away all the foreign born players to create this world select team. Then hand picks who he wants to fill the voids in both all star teams. So your fan vote makes up 50% of the team which then gets cut by 50% basically.
Jokic SGA Wemby Giannas Luka
Sengun Lauri Siakim KAT Embiid Jamal Murray Demi Avdija Josh Giddey Franz Wagner OG Anunoby Sabonis
Team world will smack the two USA teams
Amazing how they keep finding new ways to make a game no one wants,
particularly the players, even stupider, just to generate ticket and ad sales.