On January 26, the NBA announced the starting lineup of the 2024 All-Star Game, Antetokounmpo and James were elected captain and vote king of the East and West respectively, Tatum, Embiid, Halliburton, Lillard, Durant, Jokic, Doncic, Alexander and other people were also shortlisted for the starting lineup.

This year's All-Star game is returning to the East-West rivalry, canceling the captain selection process, the starting lineup is voted by fans, players, and media, and the substitute lineup is voted by the coach. Among them, the fan vote accounted for 50% of the starting lineup, players and media votes accounted for 25% each, after weighted calculation, the lower the weighted score, the higher the ranking. It is because the starting lineup is not only decided by the fans, Warriors star Curry did not choose, Bucks star Lillard narrowly shortlisted.

The voting rules for the NBA All-Star lineup change all the time. In December 2016, the NBA announced that in addition to fans, players and media could also vote. Although the voting rules are more complex, the proportion of fans voting is still the highest, and the honor of the All-Star vote king is still valued by many stars.

Previously, James was elected to the All-Star vote 10 times in his career, ranking first in history.

From 2017 to 2023, James won the All-Star vote for seven consecutive years. This year, the winner of the fan vote is Giannis Antetokounmpo.

According to the voting data released by the NBA league, Antetokounmpo received 5,427,874 fan votes, and James received 5,098,872 fan votes, with more than 300,000 votes, Antetokounmpo was elected the All-Star vote king for the first time in his career.

In addition, Tatum received 4,802,187 fan votes, ranking third among all players, Embiid, Jokic, Durant, Doncic fan votes are more than 4 million, ranked fourth to seventh, Doncic is the only fan vote more than 4 million votes of the backcourt player.

From 2018 to 2023, the NBA All-Star Game once canceled the East-West confrontation, and was replaced by two captain candidates, from early candidates, live candidates to pre-game candidates, the form is constantly changing. Until this year, the traditional east-West confrontation returned, and Antetokounmpo and James only served as captains of the East and West departments and no longer participated in the selection process.

According to the voting rules of the NBA All-Star Game starting lineup, whether it is fans, players, and media voting, the West and East select three front court players and two back court players respectively.

In this year's Western voting results, for example, James, Jokic, Durant three front-court players shortlisted the starting lineup, almost no suspense.

Among all Western front court players, James, Jokic and Durant were the top three in fan voting, and players and media voting, Jokic topped the list, followed by James and Durant. After weighted calculation, James and Jokic have the same weighted score, due to more fan votes, James has surpassed Jokic to become the highest ranked Western Conference frontcourt player.

Anthony Davis, Leonard, Paul George received a very considerable number of votes, the Rockets player Shen Jing's fan vote can even rank fifth in the Western front court players, Wenbanyamama's fans, players vote are ranked eighth in the Western front court players, but they failed to threaten James, Jokic, Durant's starting position.

In contrast, the competition for Western Conference backcourt players is more intense. Doncic's fans voted to rank the first western backcourt players, Alexander's players and media voted to lead all western backcourt players, and after weighted calculation, Doncic and Alexander ranked the top two Western backcourt players and were shortlisted for the starting lineup.

Warriors star Curry received a total of 3,228,111 fan votes, ranking second among Western Conference backcourt players, ahead of Alexander. However, Curry's player vote ranked third in the Western backcourt players, and the media vote was only 4 votes. After weighted calculation, Curry was 2.75 points behind Alexander's 2 points (the lower the score, the higher the ranking) and was dropped from the starting lineup.

Similar to the situation in the West, there is no doubt about the competition for frontcourt players in the East. Fans, players and media voting, Antetokounmpo, Tatum, Embiid are far ahead of other opponents, the undisputed election of the All-Star Eastern Conference starter.

In particular, Antetokounmpo, not only beat James to be elected NBA All-Star vote king, players, media votes are also ahead of other Eastern front court players, 3 votes are the first Eastern front court players. Embiid's players, media voting are ranked second in the Eastern front court players, because the fan vote is lower than Tatum, the two weighted scores are the same, Embiid ultimately ranked third in the Eastern front court players.

Unlike the eastern front court players of high popularity, stars shining, in addition to the Pacers star Halliburton, the Eastern backcourt players appear dim stars, the competitive situation is also confusing.

As the king of NBA regular-season assists this season, Halliburton's wonderful performance is obvious to all. In the voting of fans, players and media, he ranked first among the Eastern backcourt players and was easily selected for the starting lineup. As for the other Eastern Conference backcourt player slot, there is fierce competition between Lillard, Brunson, Trey Young and Mitchell.

Among the Eastern backcourt players, Brunson's media voting ranked second, player voting ranked third, Trey Young's fan voting ranked second, Mitchell's media voting ranked third, Lillard's fan voting ranked third, and the four stars have their own advantages. After the weighted calculation, Trey Young and Mitchell's final score was 4 points, Lillard and Brunson's final score was 3.75 points, because Lillard's fan vote was more than Brunson's, according to the rules, the same score compared the fan vote first, Lillard lucky shortlisted the starting lineup.

Of course, whether it is Curry, Anthony Davis, Leonard and other stars in the West, or Brunson, Jaylen Brown, Trey Young and other stars in the East, although they are not elected to the starting lineup, they still have the opportunity to enter the reserve team to participate in the All-Star game.