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Starters for the 2026 NBA All-Star Game were selected by fans, current NBA players and a media panel. Fans accounted for 50% of the vote to determine the starters, while players and media accounted for 25% each - THIS DAY IN THE NBA

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Tuesday January 20, 2026

Luka Doncic and Giannis Antetokounmpo remain the leaders in their conferences in the second fan returns in NBA All-Star Voting 2026. Fans (50% of the vote) join NBA players (25%) and a media panel (25%) in selecting five players in each conference honored as starters.

Starters for the 2026 NBA All-Star Game were selected by fans, current NBA players and a media panel. Fans accounted for 50% of the vote to determine the starters, while players and media accounted for 25% each.

After all votes were tallied, players were ranked in each conference within each of the three voting groups. Each player’s score was calculated by averaging his weighted rank from the fan votes, the player votes and the media votes. Each player’s score was weighted based on 50% for fan vote, 25% for players vote and 25% for media vote. The formula to determine a player’s score is (Fan Rank * 2 + Player Rank + Media Rank)/4.

The five players with the best score in each conference were named starters. Fan votes served as the tiebreaker for players in a conference with the same score. The San Antonio Spurs’ Victor Wembanyama won a tiebreaker with the Minnesota Timberwolves’ Anthony Edwards for a starting spot in the Western Conference.

Below are the voting results from each conference.

NBA EUROPE

The bigger question is what the future will be for the game in Germany and across Europe. The impact of international stars -- particularly European stars -- on the NBA game is clear, with Serbia's Nikola Jokic, Greece's Giannis Antetokounmpo, France's Victor Wembanyama and Slovenia's Luka Doncic among the biggest basketball stars on the planet, all following in the footsteps of German great Dirk Nowitzki and more.

Current target countries for the NBA-FIBA endeavor are known to include England (with the potential host cities there being London and Manchester),France (Paris and Lyon), Spain (Madrid and Barcelona), Italy (Rome and Milan), Germany (Munich and Berlin), Greece (Athens) and Turkey (Istanbul).

THIS DAY IN THE NBA

January 20, 1892 The first official basketball game took place at the YMCA gymnasium in Springfield, Massachusetts. There were two nine-man teams. A soccer ball was used and peach baskets were nailed 10 feet above the floor on the balcony.

January 20, 1952 George Mikan scored 61 points, a career-high for the NBA's first superstar, as he led the Minneapolis Lakers to a 91-81 double-overtime victory over the Rochester Royals.

January 20, 1967 Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia 76ers made all 15 of his field goal attempts against the Los Angeles Lakers, at the time the NBA record for most field goals made without a miss in a single game. Remarkably, Chamberlain bettered the mark twice before the 1966-67 season ended, including his NBA record 18-for-18 performance against Baltimore on February 24, 1967.

January 20, 1970 Cincinnati's Tom Van Arsdale and Phoenix's Dick Van Arsdale become the first brothers to play in the same All-Star Game. Dick scored eight points for the West team, while Tom scored five for the East, which won the game 142-135 at Philadelphia.

January 20, 1995 Karl Malone reached 20,000 career points after hitting for a game-high 28 points in Utah's 94-84 win over visiting Cleveland.

January 20, 1996 Denver's Dale Ellis connected on a pair of three-point field goals during the Nuggets' 115-110 home loss to Sacramento, allowing him to become the first NBA player with 1,200 career three-pointers.

January 20, 1999 The NBA and the National Basketball Players Association signed the new Collective Bargaining Agreement, paving the way for training camps to open after the first regular-season work stoppage in NBA history.

January 20, 2000 Karl Malone of the Utah Jazz reaches the 43,000-minute plateau in Utah's 94-89 victory over Vancouver to become the eighth player in NBA history to pass that mark.

January 20, 2001 Former New York Knicks' General Manager Eddie Donovan, who built the roster of the Knicks' 1970 NBA championship team, died in New Jersey at age 78.