Eight-time All-NBA Milwaukee Bucks power forward Giannis Antetokounmpo, and six-time All-NBA Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokic currently pace all others in the first wave of All-Star fan voting.
Shams Charania of ESPN revealed the early results. Fan voting is weighted for 50 percent of all cumulative voting, while journalists and players account for the remaining 50 percent. Five starters — three frontcourt players and two guards — are selected from both the Eastern and Western Conferences. NBA coaches then vote to fill out the benches, adding seven players per conference.
Denver’s Nikola Jokic and Milwaukee’s Giannis Antetokounmpo are leading the NBA’s first 2024-25 All-Star fan voting returns: pic.twitter.com/eQeU60l673
— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) January 2, 2025
Antetokounmpo’s 1,710,630 votes represent the most in the league, while Jokic’s 1,422,121 are the second-most. Boston Celtics All-NBA power forward Jayson Tatum (1,385,851 votes), Phoenix Suns All-NBA power forward Kevin Durant (1,268,799 votes) and Los Angeles Lakers All-NBA power forward LeBron James (1,167,661 votes) round out the top five vote recipients.
The two former multi-time league MVPs have enjoyed spectacular starts to their 2024-25 seasons.
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