LeBron James Los Angeles Lakers boosted their lead on Thursday by the NBA fans' vote for the "All-Star" match, ahead of 149,564 votes over the Slovenian Luka Doncic of the Mavericks.
It appears that James and the Greek Yannis Antikonembo, Milwaukee Bucks star, will lead the two teams in the match scheduled for February 16 in Chicago in the 69th version of "All Stars", in a repeat of what happened last year, when the LeBron team defeated Yannis 178-164. .
The difference between James, who was awarded the NBA's best player five times, from Doncic just a week ago was 82,001 votes, but he raised the pace to lead the western region by 4,747,887 votes while the Greek star leads the eastern region with 4,474,107 votes.
The one who gets the most votes in both regions will be assigned as the team leader, and to choose his squad on February 6 from a group of available players, regardless of their region in the All-Star match.
The voting ends next Monday, when the votes of the fans are calculated at 50 percent, the current league players by 25 percent and the media at a similar rate, in order to choose ten main players.
The main players will be unveiled next Thursday, so that the reserve players who will be chosen by the league's coaches will be announced on the 30th of this month.