The stars Stephen Curry, LeBron James and Kevin Durant remained leaders on Thursday in the voting for the NBA All-Star Game, which will take place in its 71st edition on February 20 in Cleveland.
Shooting guard Curry, two-time NBA MVP and three-time league champion, who last month broke the 3-point record by making his 2,974th such basket, set the overall pace with 4,463,426 votes.
Meanwhile, LeBron, the star of the Los Angeles Lakers, four-time MVP and four-time league champion, was second overall and also led the Western Conference forwards with 4,386,392 ballots.
For his part, Durant, current NBA scoring leader, was the league MVP in 2014 and twice champion along with Curry with the Golden State Warriors, led the Eastern Conference in general with 4,088,334 tickets.
The team captains will be the players who lead each Conference in the voting, which for the moment remains Durant (East) and Curry (West), who will choose the players voted for independently of the Conference.
Memphis shooting guard Ja Morant moved from third to second in Western Conference voting for a starting job at that position, while Atlanta’s Trae Young moved up to second among Eastern Conference shooting guards to fill that spot. .
In the West, Morant was second behind Curry with 1,633,313 votes among shooting guards to overtake Slovenian Luka Doncic (Dallas), who was third with 1,410,605.
Behind LeBron among the forwards in the West march Serbian Nikola Jokic (Denver) with 3,016,380 votes and Andrew Wiggins (Golden State) with 1,829,733.
In the East, Durant is followed at small forward by Greek star Giannis Antetokounmpo of the defending champion Milwaukee Bucks.
The vote to decide the starters for the All-Star Game will include 50% of the fans and 25% of each of the players and a panel of the press in charge of covering the NBA.
The votes will be updated next Thursday, two days before the deadline.
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