NBA\u2019s official release<\/a>, \u201cFans voting via the NBA App and NBA.com with their NBA ID represent 50% of the vote to determine the five players from each conference honored as starters for the 2026 NBA All-Star Game, with current NBA players and a media panel accounting for 25% each. This year, All-Stars are being selected without regard to position.\u201d<\/p>\nAvdija has his work cut out for him if he wants to break into the top five of the fan vote, but Blazers fans have an opportunity to give him a boost tomorrow, which the NBA has designated as a \u201c3-for-1 Day.\u201d All votes cast by fans with an NBA ID via the NBA App and NBA.com on Tuesday, December 30th count as three votes.<\/p>\n
Lakers guard Luka Doncic leads all players with 1,249,518 votes. He is followed in the Western Conference by Nikola Jokic of the Denver Nuggets (1,128,962 votes), Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors (1,031,455 votes), reigning MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander of the Oklahoma City Thunder (878,621 votes) and Victor Wembanyama of the San Antonio Spurs (769,362 votes).<\/p>\n
Giannis Antetenkounmpo of the Milwaukee Bucks leads the Eastern Conference (1,192,296 votes). Tyrese Maxey of the Philadelphia 76ers (1,072,449 votes), Jalen Brunson of the New York Knicks (1,040,601 votes), Cade Cunningham of the Detroit Pistons (1,000,171 votes) and Donovan Mitchell of the Cleveland Cavaliers (851,155 votes) round out the top five.<\/p>\n
The All-Star game will be hosted by the Los Angeles Clippers on Sunday, February 15th. This year\u2019s contest will include two teams of U.S. players and one team of international players competing in a round-robin format.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NBA released its first round of All-Star vote returns on Monday and Deni Avdija of the Portland…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3784],"tags":[7,601,37660,6,687,471,3967,1617],"class_list":{"0":"post-503863","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-portland-trail-blazers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-blazers","10":"tag-blazers-news","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-portland","13":"tag-portland-trail-blazers","14":"tag-portlandtrailblazers","15":"tag-trail-blazers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115804833953098489","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}