NBA NEWS - NBA ALL STAR GAME - 3 rd ROUND VOTING RESULTS

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NBA NEWS - NBA ALL STAR GAME - 2nd ROUND VOTING RESULTS

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Step Curry, LeBron James, Kevin Durant and DeMar DeRozan top votes getter for their positions. Curry was the top vote getter overall. In a somewhat shocking result LaMelo Ball took the 5th guard spot for the Eastern Conference. Ball received 130,000 more votes than Kyrie Irving. The results? Read-em and weep… KEY DATES - THIS DAY IN THE NBA

Tuesday January 18 2022

NEW YORK, NY USA

Step Curry received the most overall votes from the 2nd round of NBA voting for the All Star game to be played February 20 in Cleveland. Curry leads in votes for Western Conference guards with 4,463,426 votes. The Memphis Grizzlies Ja Morant trails Curry by almost 3 MILLION VOTES in tallying 1,633,313 votes . The Lakers LeBron James leads the Western Conference in votes for frontcourt positions with 4,386,392 votes.

The Brooklyn Nets Kevin Durant topped Eastern Conference voting overall with 4,088,334 votes for a frontcourt position. The revitalized DeMar DeRosan of the Chicago Bulls leads in votes for the guard position with 2,973,854 votes.

A surprise in the results includes 2nd year player LaMelo Ball of the Charlotte Hornets receiving 694,446 votes for 5th place in the guard position results. The shocker is Ball received 130,000 votes more than the Brooklyn Nets Kyrie Irving.

WETERN CONFERENCE

EASTERN CONFERENCE

KEY DATES

JANUARY 2022

Jan. 20 All two-way contracts are guaranteed for the remainder of the season

FEBRUARY 2022

Feb. 1 Black History Month begins (Feb. 1-28)

Feb. 10 NBA Trade Deadline (3 p.m. ET)

Feb. 18 NBA All-Star break begins (Feb. 18-23) Feb. 18 NBA All-Star 2022 begins (Cleveland)

Feb. 20 NBA All-Star Game 2022 (Cleveland)

THIS DAY IN THE NBA

January 18, 1972 The Lakers’ “Mr. Clutch,” Jerry West, sank a last-second, 20-foot jumper to lead the West team to a 112-110 All-Star victory over the East, as he garnered MVP honors.

January 18, 1983 Dick Motta becomes the fifth NBA coach to log 600 wins as Dallas knocked off Golden State 112-102 in Oakland.

January 18, 1998 Former Boston Celtics center Robert Parish is honored by having his No. 00 raised to the FleetCenter rafters at halftime of a game vs. Indiana. The game marked the return of Larry Bird to Boston as head coach of the Indiana Pacers.

January 18, 2002 Alex Hannum, the first coach to win championships in both the ABA and NBA, and one of only two coaches to win NBA titles with different teams, died at his home in San Diego. He was 78.