Third Returns Of All-Star Balloting Released

[duncan228]

Howard, Bryant maintain All-Star vote leads; LeBron rises (http://www.nba.com/2009/news/01/01/010109allstarreturns/index.html)
By Official Release

NEW YORK -- Orlando's Dwight Howard, the defending Sprite Slam Dunk champion, remains as the overall leader with 1,709,088 votes following the third returns of 2009 NBA All-Star Balloting presented by T-Mobile. Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers and Yao Ming of the Houston Rockets still occupy the top spots in the Western Conference.

Phoenix will host the NBA All-Star Game for the third time when the midseason classic is played for the 58th time on Sunday, Feb. 15. The game will air live (8pm ET) on TNT, ESPN Radio and in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. The NBA All-Star Game was played in Phoenix in both 1975 and 1995.

Cleveland's LeBron James, the 2008 NBA All-Star Game MVP, paces all Eastern Conference forwards with 1,521,272 votes, followed by Boston's Kevin Garnett (1,101,541), the leading vote-recipient in 2008. Miami's Dwyane Wade, the NBA's leading scorer, leads all Eastern Conference guards with 1,473,225 votes, followed by Detroit's Allen Iverson (1,027,153). Philadelphia's Samuel Dalembert (239,089) is running second to Howard at the center position.

Bryant leads all Western Conference players with 1,534,020 votes, followed by Yao (1,396,126). The Houston Rockets' Tracy McGrady follows Bryant at the guard position with 961,852 votes. San Antonio's Tim Duncan (1,132,095) and Phoenix's Amar'e Stoudemire (743,639) pace all Western Conference forwards, with Shaquille O'Neal (727,975) of the Phoenix Suns trailing Yao at the center position.

The 2009 NBA All-Star Balloting program, which also includes partner 2K Sports, allows fans around the world to vote daily for their favorite players as starters for the All-Star Game in a variety of ways, including: at each NBA arena; in 20 languages on NBA.com; and through mobile phones at t-zones® on T-Mobile phones or wap.nba.com for any wireless carrier. A T-Mobile-branded All-Star Balloting widget is available on NBA.com so that fans can "grab" the widget and place it on their blogs, social network pages, or personal websites allowing others to vote directly from the widget. Voting will continue through Jan. 11, for paper balloting and Jan. 19, for NBA.com and wireless balloting.

NBA All-Star 2009 is a week-long celebration that enables fans to experience the thrill of the world's greatest athletes playing the game they love and features a full slate of community-enhancing activities including the NBA Cares All-Star Day of Service and fan festivals such as NBA All-Star Jam Session.

One hundred twenty players -- 60 each from the Eastern and Western conferences -- are listed on the NBA All-Star ballot. Voters select two guards, two forwards and one center from each conference. The 120 players on the ballot were selected by a panel of media experts who regularly cover the NBA. This year's panel included Paul Coro (Arizona Republic), Ernie Johnson (TNT), Jack McCallum (Sports Illustrated), David Moore (Dallas Morning News), Marc Spears (Boston Globe) and Marc Stein (ESPN.com).

The final balloting update will be issued on Thursday, Jan. 8 and the announcement of the All-Star starters will take place on Thursday Jan. 22, prior to a TNT doubleheader. Following the completion of fan voting and the starting line-up announcement, the head coaches in each conference will vote to determine the remaining All-Stars in their respective conference, which will be announced Thursday, Jan. 29 prior to a TNT doubleheader.

As the presenting partner of the 2009 NBA All-Star Balloting program, and in support of the NBA's season-long effort to better the various communities in Phoenix, T-Mobile will donate $1 for every ballot cast on t-zones, T-Mobile's wireless Web portal, to help the youth of Phoenix. The week leading up to the 58th NBA All-Star Game will feature a full slate of community-enhancing activities and fan festivals, such as NBA All-Star Jam Session presented by adidas and the T-Mobile Rookie Challenge & Youth Jam on Friday, Feb. 13.

2009 NBA ALL-STAR BALLOTING

Leaders of the Eastern Conference in the third returns of NBA All-Star balloting for the 2009 NBA All-Star Game in Phoenix.

Forwards

LeBron James (Clev) 1,521,272
Kevin Garnett (Bos) 1,101,541
Yi Jianlian (NJ) 959,324
Chris Bosh (Tor) 601,204
Paul Pierce (Bos) 387,105
Hedo Turkoglu (Orl) 236,360
Shawn Marion (Mia) 230,119
Danny Granger (Ind) 155,484
Josh Smith (Atl) 131,281
Michael Beasley (Mia) 121,632
Tayshaun Prince (Det) 114,869

Guards

Dwyane Wade (Mia) 1,473,225
Allen Iverson (Det) 1,027,153
Vince Carter (NJ) 708,699
Ray Allen (Bos) 435,945
Devin Harris (NJ) 359,442
Gilbert Arenas (Wash) 283,030
Luke Ridnour (Mil) 276,009
Derrick Rose (Chi) 242,740
Jose Calderon (Tor) 221,946
Jameer Nelson (Orl) 198,050
Joe Johnson (Atl) 189,343

Centers

Dwight Howard (Orl) 1,709,088
Samuel Dalembert (Phi) 239,089
Rasheed Wallace (Det) 197,785
Jermaine ONeal (Tor) 177,121
Andrew Bogut (Mil) 151,043
Al Horford (Atl) 140,637
Ben Wallace (Clev) 112,014
Emeka Okafor (Char) 100,114
Brendan Haywood (Wash) 89,664
Zyrdrunas Ilgauskas (Cle) 78,035
Kendrick Perkins (Bos) 68,513

2009 NBA ALL-STAR BALLOTING

Leaders of the Western Conference in the third returns of NBA All-Star balloting for the 2009 NBA All-Star Game in Phoenix.

Forwards

Tim Duncan (SA) 1,132,095
Amare Stoudemire (Pho) 743,639
Carmelo Anthony (Den) 725,411
Dirk Nowitzki (Dal) 673,720
Ron Artest (Hou) 662,510
Pau Gasol (LAL) 495,835
Bruce Bowen (SA) 375,079
Shane Battier (Hou) 374,413
Luis Scola (Hou) 228,598
Josh Howard (Dal) 228,157
LaMarcus Aldridge (Por) 170,056

Guards

Kobe Bryant (LAL) 1,534,020
Tracy McGrady (Hou) 961,852
Chris Paul (NO) 867,889
Manu Ginobili (SA) 500,158
Tony Parker (SA) 459,718
Steve Nash (Pho) 345,948
Jason Kidd (Dal) 331,203
Rafer Alston (Hou) 282,767
Jason Terry (Dal) 265,521
Brandon Roy (Por) 210,755
Chauncey Billups (Den) 205,554

Centers

Yao Ming (Hou) 1,396,126
Shaquille ONeal (Pho) 727,975
Andrew Bynum (LAL) 294,381
Mehmet Okur (Utah) 256,902
Greg Oden (Por) 162,299
Andris Biedrins (GS) 129,488
Tyson Chandler (NO) 112,949
Al Jefferson (Minn) 100,480
Nick Collison (OKC) 69,039
Marcus Camby (LAC) 57,474
Chris Kaman (LAC) 21,814

[DUNCANownsKOBE2]

The Rockets have the leading vote getter at C, 2nd and 8th leading vote getters at guard, and the 5th, 8th, and 9th leading vote getters at forward. If all star votes were kind of gauge for how good a player is, the Rockets would shatter the Bull's 72-10 record.

Joe Johnson should be the other east guard. Dirk should be ahead of Amare. T-Mac shouldn't even be on the ballet, Paul should have more votes than Kobe, and Al Jefferson should be leading the west. Other than that it looks good.

[WildcardManu]

The Rockets have the leading vote getter at C, 2nd and 8th leading vote getters at guard, and the 5th, 8th, and 9th leading vote getters at forward. If all star votes were kind of gauge for how good a player is, the Rockets would shatter the Bull's 72-10 record.

Joe Johnson should be the other east guard. Dirk should be ahead of Amare. T-Mac shouldn't even be on the ballet, Paul should have more votes than Kobe, and Al Jefferson should be leading the west. Other than that it looks good.

I agree on the Joe Johnson being the other guard in the east.

[benefactor]

Other than Wade and Yao, Joe Johnson and Al Jefferson are better than every single player on their lists.

[wildbill2u]

Bruce isn't having an All-star year.

Three forwards from Houston, Scola, Artest and Battier and Aslton at guard are a tribute to fan votes????

[Sean Cagney]

The Rockets have the leading vote getter at C, 2nd and 8th leading vote getters at guard, and the 5th, 8th, and 9th leading vote getters at forward. If all star votes were kind of gauge for how good a player is, the Rockets would shatter the Bull's 72-10 record.

Joe Johnson should be the other east guard. Dirk should be ahead of Amare. T-Mac shouldn't even be on the ballet, Paul should have more votes than Kobe, and Al Jefferson should be leading the west. Other than that it looks good.Because they play with Yao Ming :rolleyes. I swear they need to take China out of the voting for all star player, they vote for Yi like he is an all star and then this crap! You have to be kidding me?

[exstatic]

CP3 makes me vomit, but I'm about ready to stuff the vote just to get TBroke out of the starting lineup.

[lefty]

Bruuuuuuuuuuuuuce

[DMX7]

Bruce has more votes than Steve Nash. lol

[DUNCANownsKOBE2]

CP3 makes me vomit, but I'm about ready to stuff the vote just to get TBroke out of the starting lineup.

T-bitch's knee might keep him out of the lineup.

The way it should work is in order make the all star ballot as an 8+ year veteran, you need to win a playoff series. That takes care of T-Mac.

[DUNCANownsKOBE2]

Bruce isn't having an All-star year.

Neither is Yi Jian Lian or anyone on the Rockets.

[duncan228]

Jeff McDonald: The least suprising All-Star news ever (http://blogs.mysanantonio.com/weblogs/courtside/2009/01/jeff-mcdonald-t-25.html)

The NBA released its latest batch of All-Star results Thursday, and -- surprise! -- Tim Duncan still leads all Western Conference forwards.

Duncan has garnered 1,132, 095 votes, 388,456 more than second-place Amare Stoudemire. So, unless there's a massive case of Internet voter fraud uncovered in the Virgin Islands, it appears Duncan is on pace for his 10th consecutive All-Star start.

Also not that surprising, Manu Ginobili and Tony Parker remain on the outside looking in in the guard voting. They rate fourth and fifth in the West, respectively. Parker, who probably deserves an All-Star berth, is probably going to have to look to the coaches to make that happen.

Notably, both Parker and Ginobili are outpolling a pair of big-name former All-Stars, Steve Nash and Jason Kidd.

One more Spurs player appears in the latest round of results, and it's somewhat of an unexpected one. Bruce Bowen, despite being moved to the bench this season, ranks sixth among Western Conference forwards with 375,079 votes.

[timtonymanu]

i hate Chris Paul, but i wish he made the starters. T-Mac aint having an all-star year and is just wasting a spot to someone who deserves it. Wasnt Paul beating T-Mac at first?

[cnyc3]

please vote for chris paul and Yi.

that is all

[angelbelow]

lol wow yi. they really ought to take a closer look at this fan voting starting lineup concept.

[robino2001]

Do y'all think the NBA is hiding Marbury's votes? Is he still on the online ballot? (I'm too lazy to look) I know of tons of people are voting as much as they can to get Marbury in... not as many people as live in China..., but I'd at least expect him to crack the top 12 or whatever it is.

[Rogue]

The houston sacked rockets unbelievably have 6 players leading in the list, LOL

Tmac is over CP and Rafer Alston is in front of Billups and ROy.

Yao deserves the starting center because tim was resorted to PF and the other center are all worse than him

Even the Yi crap Jianlian is ranked 3rd on the forward list just behind KG and LBJ, even over Bosh and PPierce. Thanks god that KG is in the east instead of west, or Yi f***ing jialian would go into the all-star weekend and start for the East. You know it's gonna be a sh!t to see double yellow craps appearing in the all-star game as lineups. Eastern team's coach is gonna be Mike Brown (cav's coach) because Doc rivers was the eastern team's coach last year so he is not allowed to take this role in the seacond straight year. I'm gonna be pissed off if Brown select Yi f***ing jianlian to his team, so are Paul Pierce and CB4.

[Kobayagi]

I can understand Yi's votes, however Bowen's votes are a real mystery to me.

[Kori Ellis]

I can understand Yi's votes, however Bowen's votes are a real mystery to me.

Lots of Spurs fans voting a straight ticket.

[Rapper]

Man my friends and I have been voting for Duncan 30 time per day

[Armando]

How does Arenas have more votes then Jonhson?

[dirk4mvp]

Alston, Ginobili, and McGrady ahead of JET is comical.

[Armando]

McGrady needs to do the right thing and give Paul his starting spot. If the votes hold like they are.

[Bob Lanier]

McGrady needs to do the right thing and give Paul his starting spot. If the votes hold like they are.
Why? The fans should get what they voted for, and contrary to what some people may believe, Chinese, Chinese-Americans, and Houstonians are not less human or less fans than anyone else (like, for instance, the Greeks).

[Rogue]

Man my friends and I have been voting for Duncan 30 time per day
You have 30 different IPs?
One IP is only allowed to vote once within 24 hours.

Oh, I got it. You have 29 friends each of whom has a PC and a private IP. Tell them and yourself not to ignore the other spurs who are also avalible in the ballot.


Why? The fans should get what they voted for, and contrary to what some people may believe, Chinese, Chinese-Americans, and Houstonians are not less human or less fans than anyone else (like, for instance, the Greeks).
You can make sure that there is no Greek-American here? :lmao

[024]

league is hiding the marbury votes. i guess i'll start voting for cp3 to keep tmac from the all star team.

[Rapper]

You have 30 different IPs?
One IP is only allowed to vote once within 24 hours.

Oh, I got it. You have 29 friends each of whom has a PC and a private IP. Tell them and yourself not to ignore the other spurs who are also avalible in the ballot.


You can make sure that there is no Greek-American here? :lmao

No

I just have 1 IP. but i can vote for Tim as much as I want

I just need to delete my cookie in my system then i can vote again

[Sean Cagney]

I can understand Yi's votes, however Bowen's votes are a real mystery to me.

Bruce Lee Bowen studies karate as you can tell from his kicks, so the Chinese love and respect and vote for him :lol:rollin

[mob]

marbury doesn't even have 200 000 votes?

nba is hiding

[mrspurs]

I stopped watching the All Star game back when Timmy first came aboard. I dont boycott the game, but its just to boring to watch. For me personally they should do like the NFL, and put the game on after the season is over. One last hoorah before they leave on vacation. Ill say this, last years Slam dunk contest was the first Ive seen in many years and it wasnt a bad show. But like all shows, they had a winner before the contest even started. And for the All Star game as long as noone gets hurt then I dont care who wins. Id hate to hear a team use an Allstar game injury as an excuse for not going all the way.

[JPB]

Manu shouldn't be ahead of Parker either.

[urunobili]

Manu shouldn't be ahead of Parker either.

dont even worry about what the fans think... the coaches will give TP his much deserved 3rd All Star appearance :)

[tmtcsc]

T-Mac is a great player who can't stay healthy. He's been garbage and unreliable for the Rockets this year. If they were smart, they would move him to Portland for something. God knows they have an over-abundance of young talent. Not enough minutes to go around over there.

[WalterBenitez]

Bruce has more votes than Steve Nash. lol

Even that probably Steve will go and Bruce stay at home, anyhow ... Bruce has a big family?:toast

[DUNCANownsKOBE2]

Alston, Ginobili, and McGrady ahead of JET is comical.

Alston even on the ballot is comical.

[DUNCANownsKOBE2]

Even that probably Steve will go and Bruce stay at home, anyhow ... Bruce has a big family?:toast

Nash won't be in the game and he doesn't deserve it, he's returned to Dallas form, look at the stats, his stats this year almost exactly match 2003-2004.

[DUNCANownsKOBE2]

Why? The fans should get what they voted for, and contrary to what some people may believe, Chinese, Chinese-Americans, and Houstonians are not less human or less fans than anyone else (like, for instance, the Greeks).

Yes they are, they don't vote on basketball, they just blindly vote Houston and Yi. It's a disgrace to the game.

[Dex]

It will be interesting to see Shaq and Duncan playing for the same side again.

[Dex]

dont even worry about what the fans think... the coaches will give TP his much deserved 3rd All Star appearance :)

That would probably be the only way to get all three into the All-Star game.

I don't think Ginobili has shown enough for the coaches to give him a ticket to Phoenix, whereas Parker is probably in that running pretty easily.

Tim's obviously a lock, so if Manu can get in on popular vote (would probably require TMac or someone missing) and Tony gets the coaches pass, maybe we could finally see the Big Three in the ASG.

Then again, they'd probably all be better off with the weekend off.

[Josepatches_]

I believe Roy and CP3 will be All Star with Bryant and TMac too.They deserve it more than TP.

[Dex]

I believe Roy and CP3 will be All Star with Bryant and TMac too.They deserve it more than TP.

Hard to argue with that. CP3 should be a given, and Roy has been pretty impressive this season as well, and has carried the Blazers pretty far.

[cnyc3]

That would probably be the only way to get all three into the All-Star game.

I don't think Ginobili has shown enough for the coaches to give him a ticket to Phoenix, whereas Parker is probably in that running pretty easily.

Tim's obviously a lock, so if Manu can get in on popular vote (would probably require TMac or someone missing) and Tony gets the coaches pass, maybe we could finally see the Big Three in the ASG.

Then again, they'd probably all be better off with the weekend off.


Manu's best chance is if CP3 overtakes tmac on the voting list. If he does, no way the coaches put tmac in there so there's a slot for manu

[Dunc n Dave]

The houston sacked rockets unbelievably have 6 players leading in the list, LOL

Tmac is over CP and Rafer Alston is in front of Billups and ROy.

Yao deserves the starting center because tim was resorted to PF and the other center are all worse than him

Even the Yi crap Jianlian is ranked 3rd on the forward list just behind KG and LBJ, even over Bosh and PPierce. Thanks god that KG is in the east instead of west, or Yi f***ing jialian would go into the all-star weekend and start for the East. You know it's gonna be a sh!t to see double yellow craps appearing in the all-star game as lineups. Eastern team's coach is gonna be Mike Brown (cav's coach) because Doc rivers was the eastern team's coach last year so he is not allowed to take this role in the seacond straight year. I'm gonna be pissed off if Brown select Yi f***ing jianlian to his team, so are Paul Pierce and CB4.


Mike Brown wouldn't pick the East reserves. This is not MLB, in the NBA all the head coaches from the conference vote on who to put in as the reserve players. Mike Brown would not get to hand pick his reserves, so don't worry, unless Yi overtakes Garnett, he's not getting to the ASG this year.