On January 28, Beijing time, the NBA officially announced the final fan vote results for the 2022 All-Star Game. Lakers forward LeBron James was named league champion and western captain for the ninth time in his career with 9,128,231 votes, and Warriors guard Stephen Curry ranked second in the league with 7,659,673 votes for the league's fans and second in the West.
This is the 9th time in james' career that he has been elected all-league vote king, and he has equaled Michael Jordan, becoming the player with the most all-star votes in the history of the league. This is also the sixth consecutive year that James has become an All-Star ticket king, and the previous years he became the ticket king were: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2014, 2010, 2007. These data once again prove that in terms of popularity, James is now the only player in the NBA.
It is worth mentioning that this year's All-Star vote, James is still in the first round of backward situation to complete the big reversal, after the first round of voting results came out, James fell behind Curry nearly 560,000 votes, but finally after the end of the three rounds of voting, James has led Curry by 1.46 million votes, from 560,000 votes behind to lead 1.46 million votes, before and after the completion of more than 2 million votes of the super big reversal, which shows how terrible James's popularity is.
In fact, in order to solicit votes for Curry and the other players of the Warriors, the Warriors did make a lot of efforts this year, and even reached a cooperation with Bam Bam, a member of the South Korean boy band Got7, making the latter a global ambassador for the team, and the Warriors officially gave him a No. 97 jersey. After becoming the Warriors' global ambassador, BamBam also began to solicit votes for the Warriors on social media, and Wiggins was selected as an All-Star this year, and BamBam was actually indispensable.
Perhaps some fans do not know much about BamBam, a Korean star, he actually belongs to the Korean boy band, but the nationality is Thailand, and the main fan base is also oriented to Thailand, because his popularity in Thailand is quite high, resulting in him canvassing for the Warriors, the forwarding of related fans has made the all-star votes of many Warriors players soar, and it has directly rushed Wiggins to the first hot search in Thailand, and the related canvassing has exceeded 130,000.
It must be admitted that the flow of stars is still very scary, and in the end Wiggins was successfully selected as an All-Star starter, but this also caused a lot of controversy, and many fans believe that there are other players in the West who are more qualified to become All-Star starters than Wiggins, but the popularity is not enough. But there are also players whose popularity is enough to compete with entertainment stars, such as James, even if Curry's own popularity plus BamBam's popularity, still can't shake James's façade status in the NBA.
Many fans joked that this is James's positive defeat of the rice circle culture, and did not let the entertainment industry traffic beat the basketball circle traffic. James himself is excited about his ninth all-Star name, the 18th consecutive season of all-Star selection, equaling the longest consecutive All-Star selection in league history held by Kobe Bryant. As a result, the media also announced that James became the first player in history to be named to the All-Star starting lineup for 18 consecutive years. James retweeted the record and wrote: "Son of Gloria! God's arrangement! That kid from Akron, happy. ”
It can be expected that this should not be the last time James has been elected as an All-Star vote king, as long as he gets one more time, he can become the player who has won the most votes in NBA history, surpassing Jordan in this regard, it seems that it is not difficult for James.