Early NBA All-Star fan voting returns have six Golden State Warriors among the top 20 in the Western Conference.
Steph Curry leads the conference’s backcourt with 2.715 million votes for the 2023 All-Star game to be held in Salt Lake City on Feb. 19. Klay Thompson comes in at fifth with 515,104 votes and Jordan Poole has the 10th most votes with 138,902.
Andrew Wiggins — who made his first career All-Star game last season as a starter — has the fifth most votes with 1.23 million. Draymond Green comes in at eighth with 405,245 votes and Kevon Looney has the 10th most with 245,985 votes.
The top two guards and three frontcourt players from each conference are selected as All-Star starters. At the end of the fan voting period, the top vote-getters in each conference are selected as team captains that can draft among the top 10 starters from any conference to be on their team.
Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James (a team captain in every All-Star game since the new format’s inception in 2018) and Brooklyn Nets’ Kevin Durant currently lead all voting in their respective conferences, both with over 3 million votes.
Despite a shoulder injury, Curry looks cleared to be selected an All-Star starter for a ninth time in his 14-year career. And with long-term injuries to New Orleans Pelicans’ Zion Williamson and Lakers’ Anthony Davis — who both sit ahead of him in the early fan vote — Wiggins could see a path toward consecutive starter nods.
Fan voting accounts for 50 percent of the starter voting pool. A combination of current players and media accounts for the other 50 percent of voting. Any Warriors player not selected as a starter could have a shot as a reserve. Green is looking to make his fifth career All-Star game; he was selected as a reserve last season, but didn’t participate due to injury.
Thompson could make his sixth All-Star game and first since the 2018-19 season, the year he tore his ACL in Game 6 of the NBA Finals.
Looney and Poole are gunning for their first All-Star appearances.
The 30 NBA coaches vote to select 14 reserves sent to the All-Star game. Two guards, three frontcourt players and two players at any position from each conference are selected as reserves.
LeBron James and Kevin Durant lead their respective conferences in the first fan returns of #NBAAllStar Voting presented by AT&T.
Fans account for 50% of the vote to decide All-Star starters. NBA players and a media panel account for 25% each.
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