{"id":397073,"date":"2026-01-09T10:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T10:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/397073\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T10:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T10:55:09","slug":"luka-doncic-leads-way-in-2nd-fan-returns-of-nba-all-star-voting-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/397073\/","title":{"rendered":"Luka Don\u010di\u0107 leads way in 2nd fan returns of NBA All-Star Voting 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1912016\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1912016\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/doncic-giannis-111525-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1444\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1912016\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luka Don\u010di\u0107 continues to lead the way in All-Star voting after the 2nd returns were announced.<\/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 remain the leaders of the Western and Eastern Conferences, respectively, in the second fan returns of NBA All-Star Voting 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u010di\u0107 (2,229,811 votes) continues to lead all NBA players in fan voting. The rest of the top five in the Western Conference behind Don\u010di\u0107 remains unchanged: No. 2 Nikola Joki\u0107 of the Denver Nuggets (1,998,560), No. 3 Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors (1,844,903), No. 4 Shai Gilgeous-Alexander of the Oklahoma City Thunder (1,554,468) and No. 5 Victor Wembanyama of the San Antonio Spurs (1,321,985). Minnesota Timberwolves guard Anthony Edwards (1,246,423) is in sixth place.<\/p>\n<p>Antetokounmpo tops the Eastern Conference with 2,092,284 votes. New York Knicks guard Jalen Brunson (1,916,497) has moved into second place, followed closely by No. 3 Tyrese Maxey of the Philadelphia 76ers (1,908,978). No. 4 Cade Cunningham of the Detroit Pistons (1,752,801) and No. 5 Donovan Mitchell of the Cleveland Cavaliers (1,530,237) complete the top five, with No. 6 Jaylen Brown of the Boston Celtics (1,514,259) just behind Mitchell.<\/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. This year, All-Stars are being selected without regard to position.<\/p>\n<p>NBA All-Star Voting 2026 concludes on Wednesday, Jan. 14 at 11:59 p.m. ET. NBC and Peacock will reveal the starters on Monday, Jan. 19.<\/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. 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 second fan returns.<\/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><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luka Don\u010di\u0107 continues to lead the way in All-Star voting after the 2nd returns were announced. \u2022\u00a0Cast your&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,184105,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-397073","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\/397073","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=397073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}