Golden State Warriors’ Curry still leading West guards in All-Star fan vote
Thompson, Wiggins, Green and Looney also among vote leaders through
second round of results released by NBA
By LAURENCE MIEDEMA | lsmiedema@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group
PUBLISHED: January 12, 2023 at 2:20 p.m. | UPDATED: January 12, 2023 at
2:20 p.m.
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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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LeBron James and Kevin Durant lead their respective conferences in the
second 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.

The next fan update is Jan. 19.
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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.

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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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Laurence Miedema | Assistant Sports Editor
Laurence has held a variety of roles with the Bay Area News Group sports
deparment since arriving in 2000. He is a former A's beat writer who has
helped cover MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL as well as college and high schools in
addition to serving as the Sports copy desk director.