{"id":376438,"date":"2025-12-29T19:32:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T19:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/376438\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T19:32:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T19:32:09","slug":"luka-doncic-giannis-antetokounmpo-lead-in-1st-fan-returns-of-nba-all-star-voting-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/376438\/","title":{"rendered":"Luka Don\u010di\u0107, Giannis Antetokounmpo lead in 1st fan returns of NBA All-Star Voting 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1864227\" class=\"wp-image-1864227 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/luka-doncic-bucks-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1864227\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luka Don\u010di\u0107 and Giannis Antetokounmpo lead the first voting returns for the 2026 NBA All-Star Game.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/vote.nba.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cast your NBA All-Star 2026 vote<\/a><br \/>\u2022\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/link.nba.com\/LP2024\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Get NBA League Pass TODAY<\/a><br \/>\u2022\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/allstar\/2025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBA All-Star 2026: Complete coverage<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles Lakers guard Luka Don\u010di\u0107 and Milwaukee Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo lead the Western and Eastern Conferences, respectively, in the first fan returns of NBA All-Star Voting 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u010di\u0107 leads all players with 1,249,518 votes. He is followed in the Western Conference by No. 2 Nikola Joki\u0107 of the Denver Nuggets (1,128,962), No. 3 Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors (1,031,455), No. 4 Shai Gilgeous-Alexander of the Oklahoma City Thunder (878,621) and No. 5 Victor Wembanyama of the San Antonio Spurs (769,362).<\/p>\n<p>Joining Antetokounmpo (1,192,296) atop the Eastern Conference are No. 2 Tyrese Maxey of the Philadelphia 76ers (1,072,449), No. 3 Jalen Brunson of the New York Knicks (1,040,601), No. 4 Cade Cunningham of the Detroit Pistons (1,000,171) and No. 5 Donovan Mitchell of the Cleveland Cavaliers (851,155).<\/p>\n<p>Fans 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.\u00a0 This year, All-Stars are being selected without regard to position.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow (Tuesday, Dec. 30) marks the next \u201c3-for-1 Day,\u201d when each fan vote will count three times. The next fan voting update will be shared on Tuesday, Jan. 6.<\/p>\n<p>Under a new NBA All-Star Game format, two teams of U.S. players and one team of international players (the World team) will compete in a round-robin tournament featuring four 12-minute games.\u00a0 NBC and Peacock will present the NBA All-Star Game on Sunday, Feb. 15 at 5 p.m. ET\/2 p.m. PT from Intuit Dome in Inglewood, Calif., home of the LA Clippers.<\/p>\n<p>Below are the top 20 vote-getters by conference in the first fan returns.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Luka Don\u010di\u0107 and Giannis Antetokounmpo lead their conferences in the first 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.<\/p>\n<p>Next fan update: 1\/6. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pHykl9yhTE\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/pHykl9yhTE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA Communications (@NBAPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBAPR\/status\/2005700609731879182?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 29, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luka Don\u010di\u0107 and Giannis Antetokounmpo lead the first voting returns for the 2026 NBA All-Star Game. \u2022\u00a0Cast your&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,184105,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-376438","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-nba","9":"tag-nba-all-star-vote-2026","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}