With a little more than a week remaining in the NBA All-Star fan voting, Warriors star Stephen Curry continues to lead the Western Conference guards, and four more Golden State players are among the top 16 vote-getters from the conference vying to start in the Feb. 19 game in Salt Lake City.
Curry, who this week returned to the court after missing nearly a month with a shoulder injury, has 3.9 million votes, second to only Lakers forward LeBron James among Western Conference players. Klay Thompson is fifth among guards with 836,963 votes. Jordan Poole, who was 10th after last week’s total release, dropped out of the top 10.
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Andrew Wiggins remains the Warriors’ leading vote-getter among big men with 1.6 million votes, putting him fifth in the race for one of the three starting spots. Draymond Green remained at eighth with 662,742 votes and Kevon Looney moved up a spot to No. 9.
The top two guards and three frontcourt players from each conference will be the 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.
James (a team captain in every All-Star game since the new format’s inception in 2018) and Brooklyn Nets’ Kevin Durant, who likely will miss the game because of a knee injury, continued to lead all voting in their respective conferences, both with over 4 million votes. The Bucks’ Giannis Antetokounmpo also has cleared that mark, and Curry will join them before the final fan portion of the vote ends on Jan. 21.
Fans can vote at nba.com or using the NBA app. Any votes made on Friday will count three times as part of league promotion.
Fan voting counts for 50 percent of the starters balloting, a media ballot counts for 25 percent and the ballots turned in by NBA players count for the other 25 percent. 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.
Curry is looking to become an All-Star starter for a ninth time in his 14-year career.
James is on pace to be an All-Star for the 19th time, which will tie him with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for the most All-Star selections in NBA history. James and Kobe Bryant are 18-time selections. James entered Thursday 423 points away from passing Abdul-Jabbar as the NBA’s all-time scoring leader.
Durant leads East frontcourt players, just ahead of Milwaukee’s Antetokounmpo (4,467,306). But Boston’s Jayson Tatum moved ahead of Philadelphia’s Joel Embiid this week for the third spot; Tatum had 3,281,124 votes, while Embiid had 3,248,733.
Dallas’ Luka Doncic remained No. 2 behind Curry among West guards with 3,649,647 votes.
The top two vote-getters among East guards was also unchanged: Brooklyn’s Kyrie Irving leads with 3,024,833 votes, and Cleveland’s Donovan Mitchell is second with 2,725,558.
The captains and the starters will be announced Jan. 26. Reserve will be revealed Feb. 2. The All-Star captains will then draft their teams, probably in the second week of February.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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