Three Sixers in Top Five of NBA All-Star Fan Voting

In the second returns for the 2019 NBA All-Star Game’s fan voting, three Sixers were among the top vote-getters in the Eastern Conference when they were released on Thursday.

Ben Simmons is in fourth place among the conference’s guards with 695,032 votes. Meanwhile, Joel Embiid was in third place among frontcourt players with 1.7 million votes and Jimmy Butler was fifth with 569,354 votes.

Simmons is averaging 16.4 points, 9.1 boards, 8.0 assists, 1.3 steals and 0.8 blocks. Embiid scores 26.7 points, grabs 13.4 rebounds, and blocks 1.8 shots per game, and Butler is averaging 19.1 points, 4.8 rebounds 3.6 steals and 2.0 steals.

Twelve players from each conference will then be drafted by the two captains, with fan voting accounts for 50 percent of the weighted process, NBA players and media will each count toward 25 percent of the totals.  Fan voting will select the captain based on each conference’s top vote-getter.

The NBA All-Star game is Sunday Feb. 17.

Eastern Conference - NBA All-Star voting, second returns

Frontcourt

1. Giannis Antetokounmpo (MIL), 2,670,8161 votes

2. Kawhi Leonard (TOR), 2,092,806 votes

3. Joel Embiid (PHI), 1,710,229 votes

4. Jayson Tatum (BOS), 599,289 votes

5. Jimmy Butler (PHI), 569,354 votes

6. Blake Griffin (DET), 500,072 votes

7. Vince Carter (ATL), 273,719 votes

8. Gordon Hayward (BOS), 237,813 votes

9. Pascal Siakam (TOR), 206,290 votes

10. Al Horford (BOS), 199,474 votes

Guards

1. Kyrie Irving (BOS), 2,381,901 votes

2. Dwyane Wade (MIA), 1,199,789 votes

3. Kemba Walker (CHA), 858,798 votes

4. Ben Simmons (PHI), 695,032 votes

5. Victor Oladipo (IND), 567,893 votes

6. Kyle Lowry (TOR), 488,825 votes

7. Zach LaVine (CHI), 330,504 votes

8. Jeremy Lin (ATL), 200,648 votes

9. Goran Dragić (MIA), 191,541 votes

10. Bradley Beal (WAS), 168,137 votes