{"id":520936,"date":"2026-01-06T20:37:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T20:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/520936\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T20:37:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T20:37:18","slug":"sixers-guard-tyrese-maxey-drops-one-spot-in-latest-all-star-game-voting-returns-barely-trailing-jalen-brunson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/520936\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixers guard Tyrese Maxey drops one spot in latest All-Star Game voting returns, barely trailing Jalen Brunson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tyrese Maxey has dropped from second to third among Eastern Conference players in votes for the 2026 NBA All-Star Game, now trailing Jalen Brunson of the New York Knicks, according to the NBA&#8217;s second batch of results released on Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Maxey, whose total of 1,908,978 votes is fifth-highest among all NBA players, trails Brunson by a strikingly narrow margin of about 7,500 votes:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Luka Don\u010di\u0107 and Giannis Antetokounmpo remain the leaders in their conferences in the second fan returns in NBA All-Star Voting 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Fans (50% of the vote) join NBA players (25%) and a media panel (25%) in selecting five players in each conference honored as starters. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/u8tlbj9GA8\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/u8tlbj9GA8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA Communications (@NBAPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBAPR\/status\/2008599519261532516?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 6, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Joel Embiid remains the recipient of the 17th-most votes among Eastern Conference players as the only other member of the Sixers in the top 20.<\/p>\n<p>Voting for the 2026 NBA All-Star Game remains open through Wednesday, Jan. 14.<\/p>\n<p class=\"center\">MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.phillyvoice.com\/sixers-news-analysis-kelly-oubre-jr-injury-update-rotation-minutes-line-ups-dominick-barlow-nick-nurse-nba-rumors\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Who will lose playing time when Kelly Oubre Jr. and Trendon Watford return?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow Adam on Twitter: <a data-original-title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/SixersAdam\" style=\"outline-color: currentcolor; outline-style: none;\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@SixersAdam<\/a><br \/>Follow PhillyVoice on Twitter: <a data-original-title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/thephillyvoice\" style=\"outline-color: currentcolor; outline-style: none;\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@thephillyvoice<\/a><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tyrese Maxey has dropped from second to third among Eastern Conference players in votes for the 2026 NBA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3769],"tags":[679,7,288,6,678,207,3817,96,1263],"class_list":{"0":"post-520936","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-76ers","8":"tag-76ers","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-jalen-brunson","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-philadelphia-76ers","14":"tag-philadelphia76ers","15":"tag-sixers","16":"tag-tyrese-maxey"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115850081138675741","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520936","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=520936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}