{"id":548707,"date":"2026-01-20T11:03:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T11:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/548707\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T11:03:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T11:03:20","slug":"surprising-number-of-players-voted-bronny-james-to-start-all-star-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/548707\/","title":{"rendered":"Surprising number of players voted Bronny James to start All-Star Game"},"content":{"rendered":"

The NBA All-Star game<\/a> is less than a month away, and voting is in full swing. Unsurprisingly, the Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> are making headwaves with Luka Doncic leading the way in All-Star voting<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

However, the one name that took many by surprise was Bronny James<\/a>. On Monday, it was reported<\/a> that James had received two votes from fellow players to start in the All-Star Game, per Tim Reynolds of The Associated Press. Another four players voted for Isaac Jones of the Sacramento Kings.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In his second full season with the Lakers, James has played in 24 games and is averaging 1.5 points per game. Meanwhile, the Lakers are 25-16 and have split their last ten games at 5-5.\u00a0<\/p>\n

James is the eldest son of LeBron James and is coming off a high-profile rookie season in 2024-2025. He played in 27 games and averaged 1.5 points per game. Meanwhile, James’ name was floated as a potential participant<\/a> in the Slam Dunk contest. The NBA All-Star Game is scheduled for February 15.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On Monday, the All-Star starters were announced. In the Western Conference, Doncic, Steph Curry, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Nikola Joki\u0107, and Victor Wembanyama were named as the starters. The Eastern Conference starters are Jalen Brunson, Jaylen Brown, Tyrese Maxey, Cade Cunningham, and Giannis Antetokounmpo.\u00a0<\/p>\n

However, LeBron James was not voted as an All-Star starter. This year, Bronny has played in six games for the South Bay Lakers of the NBA G League. Altogether, he has averaged 9.5 points, 4.7 assists, and 3.8 rebounds per game. Last year, Bronny played in seven games and averaged 13.4 points, 3.4 rebounds, and 2.7 assists per game.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NBA All-Star game is less than a month away, and voting is in full swing. Unsurprisingly, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3790],"tags":[7,1006,4034,1698,300,4044,251,150,4033,4043,6,7218],"class_list":{"0":"post-548707","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-lakers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-bronny-james","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-la-lakers","12":"tag-lakers","13":"tag-lalakers","14":"tag-los-angeles","15":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","16":"tag-losangeles","17":"tag-losangeleslakers","18":"tag-nba","19":"tag-nba-all-star-game"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115927095996719190","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548707","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=548707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}