Today the NBA officially announced the results of the first round of this year's All-Star vote, with Durant and Curry becoming the east-west voting kings, while James, the previous champion of votes for many years, was ranked 4th in the league.
In the first round results of the 2022 All-Star Vote released today, Curry ranked first with 2,584,623 votes, which is the current "vote king", and Durant became the "vote king" of the East End with 2,360,435 votes. Alphabet Brother ranked third with 2,145,835 votes, and James, the former "king of votes", ranked fourth with 2,018,725 votes.
According to the current voting results, this year's East Side All-Star starts will be: Harden, DeRozan, Alphabet Brother, Durant and Embiid, while this year's West Side All-Star starts will be: Curry, Doncic, Paul George, James and Jokic.
It is reported that the next time the NBA announces the results of the vote will be on January 14, a week later.
Some new developments emerged in the first round of balloting. In the top 10 votes in the East Side, Jarrett Allen (168,019) and Miles Bridges (122,554) were ranked 6th and 8th respectively. In the East Side backcourt, Ramello Ball was No. 5 with (422.247 million), and Hiro (122.224 million), Garland (119.399 million) and VanVleet (108.529 million) were no. 5, 8th, 9th and 10th respectively, all of whom had never been selected as An All-Star since their careers.
New faces also appeared in the top 10 of the West End frontcourt vote. Wiggins was 4th with 933,355 votes, Ayton was 10th with 17.7115 votes, and in the top 10 west side backcourt, Morant (669,033 million) and Edwards (128,863) were also new faces. They've also never been named an All-Star.
Interestingly, Irving, who has just made his debut this season, and Klay Thompson, who has not yet played this season, ranked 6th in the East Side backcourt vote and 4th in the West Side backcourt vote with 267,929 votes and 367,743 votes, respectively.
As a fan, have your favorite stars received votes that satisfy you? (Supine Braces/Hairy)