Lebron James leads All star votes . Shocker.

BoatsNZones · Post #21 » by **BoatsNZones** » Fri Jan 21, 2022 4:04 am

JujitsuFlip wrote:
BoatsNZones wrote:
JujitsuFlip wrote:1 captain per conference.

Ah gotcha. Figured it was just the two leading vote getters since the teams are not conference specific. Then yeah Lebron and Giannis again.
KD is slight ahead currently but still a couple days left to vote.

Yeah just counting him out since he won't be there. I'm guessing he won't bother picking teams (which would hurt his squad).

CobraCommander · Post #22 » by **CobraCommander** » Fri Jan 21, 2022 4:04 am

Ballerhogger wrote:Other things to take Jokic 3rd , AD 5th lol … Andrew Wiggins 3rd…Ja over luka . Melo 7th in the west

Wiggins is the only real surprise

The two hand block by Ja was espn sports science worthy and I’m sure it got him some votes.

Oh and Beal gonna get a super max and he ain’t even in the top 10 of guards in east!

PistolPeteJR · Post #23 » by **PistolPeteJR** » Fri Jan 21, 2022 4:15 am

KembaWalker wrote:He's got more votes than his last ring had TV viewers. Wonder why they didn't watch the games

Soon he’ll have more mentions in posts by KembaWalker than anyone else in RealGM history.

JujitsuFlip · Post #24 » by **JujitsuFlip** » Fri Jan 21, 2022 4:29 am

BoatsNZones wrote:
JujitsuFlip wrote:
BoatsNZones wrote:Ah gotcha. Figured it was just the two leading vote getters since the teams are not conference specific. Then yeah Lebron and Giannis again.
KD is slight ahead currently but still a couple days left to vote.

Yeah just counting him out since he won't be there. I'm guessing he won't bother picking teams (which would hurt his squad).

KD chose the team last season and didn't play a single second in the team LeBron vs team Durant game due to injury.

BoatsNZones · Post #25 » by **BoatsNZones** » Fri Jan 21, 2022 4:40 am

JujitsuFlip wrote:
BoatsNZones wrote:
JujitsuFlip wrote:KD is slight ahead currently but still a couple days left to vote.

Yeah just counting him out since he won't be there. I'm guessing he won't bother picking teams (which would hurt his squad).

KD chose the team last season and didn't play a single second in the team LeBron vs team Durant game due to injury.

Oh really? That's pretty silly, I don't even remember that. Good little leg up for Team Lebron again if KD has the most East votes I suppose.

art_tatum · Post #26 » by **art_tatum** » Fri Jan 21, 2022 4:48 am

His team has been paying bots for years now for NBA.com and twitter especially twitter one search and you see bots hashtagging LeBron James for all-star team lol. Why do u think he starts all-star voting behind, then suddenly gain large voting numbers the last couple weeks.

At his peak popularity he always led from week one. Those were legit votes. Now everyone is buying followers/likes/votes, i.e. Charlie demelio, Kardashian etc. LeBron is bigger than basketball he had a rep to uphold one way or another.

levon · Post #27 » by **levon** » Fri Jan 21, 2022 5:03 am

art_tatum wrote:His team has been paying bots for years now for NBA.com and twitter especially twitter one search and you see bots hashtagging LeBron James for all-star team lol. Why do u think he starts all-star voting behind, then suddenly gain large voting numbers the last couple weeks.

At his peak popularity he always led from week one. Those were legit votes. Now everyone is buying followers/likes/votes, i.e. Charlie demelio, Kardashian etc. LeBron is bigger than basketball he had a rep to uphold one way or another.

#stopthesteal

NyKnicks1714 · Post #28 » by **NyKnicks1714** » Fri Jan 21, 2022 5:05 am

art_tatum wrote:His team has been paying bots for years now for NBA.com and twitter especially twitter one search and you see bots hashtagging LeBron James for all-star team lol. Why do u think he starts all-star voting behind, then suddenly gain large voting numbers the last couple weeks.

Sounds familiar

NyKnicks1714 · Post #29 » by **NyKnicks1714** » Fri Jan 21, 2022 5:06 am

levon wrote:
art_tatum wrote:His team has been paying bots for years now for NBA.com and twitter especially twitter one search and you see bots hashtagging LeBron James for all-star team lol. Why do u think he starts all-star voting behind, then suddenly gain large voting numbers the last couple weeks.

At his peak popularity he always led from week one. Those were legit votes. Now everyone is buying followers/likes/votes, i.e. Charlie demelio, Kardashian etc. LeBron is bigger than basketball he had a rep to uphold one way or another.

#stopthesteal

Look at the attendance Curry gets at his rallies. Nobody shows up to LeBron's. Where are these votes coming from?

lonzo_pelota · Post #30 » by **lonzo_pelota** » Fri Jan 21, 2022 5:26 am

wild not seeing guys like Bradley Beal, John wall, Kawhi Leonard, Victor Oladipo & Boogie cousins not gettin any votes off fans or just pure name recognition as they're all in there prime years and all multiple time all stars or were all there names omitted?

art_tatum · Post #31 » by **art_tatum** » Fri Jan 21, 2022 5:48 am

NyKnicks1714 wrote:
levon wrote:
art_tatum wrote:His team has been paying bots for years now for NBA.com and twitter especially twitter one search and you see bots hashtagging LeBron James for all-star team lol. Why do u think he starts all-star voting behind, then suddenly gain large voting numbers the last couple weeks.

At his peak popularity he always led from week one. Those were legit votes. Now everyone is buying followers/likes/votes, i.e. Charlie demelio, Kardashian etc. LeBron is bigger than basketball he had a rep to uphold one way or another.

#stopthesteal

Look at the attendance Curry gets at his rallies. Nobody shows up to LeBron's. Where are these votes coming from?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.philstar.com/sports/2020/04/07/2006080/lebron-james-has-most-fake-instagram-followers-among-celebrity-athletes-study/amp/

Dominion ofc. They actually didn't steal the presidential election, it was for the NBA all star game.

NyKnicks1714 · Post #32 » by **NyKnicks1714** » Fri Jan 21, 2022 6:33 am

art_tatum wrote:
NyKnicks1714 wrote:
levon wrote:#stopthesteal

Look at the attendance Curry gets at his rallies. Nobody shows up to LeBron's. Where are these votes coming from?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.philstar.com/sports/2020/04/07/2006080/lebron-james-has-most-fake-instagram-followers-among-celebrity-athletes-study/amp/

All this says is that LeBron has a slightly higher percentage of fake Instagram followers than other players. You're just 100% making stuff up about fake All-star votes.

art_tatum · Post #33 » by **art_tatum** » Fri Jan 21, 2022 6:43 am

NyKnicks1714 wrote:
art_tatum wrote:
NyKnicks1714 wrote:
Look at the attendance Curry gets at his rallies. Nobody shows up to LeBron's. Where are these votes coming from?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.philstar.com/sports/2020/04/07/2006080/lebron-james-has-most-fake-instagram-followers-among-celebrity-athletes-study/amp/

All this says is that LeBron has a slightly higher percentage of fake Instagram followers than other players. You're just 100% making stuff up about fake All-star votes.

Same services for followers and likes/votes. Why wouldn't his team do it? Theyre just doing their PR job.
Also it's simple math. Look at the number of votes between the latest voting and the previous results. Look at how many votes were gained by Durant/curry/jokic/ other leaders vs LeBron. Clearly a discrepancy.
On NBA.com people usually vote for 10 players. So the majority of lebron's gain are from Twitter, where u can just search and find bots hashing LeBron and NBA all-star voting.

_NoMas · Post #34 » by **_NoMas** » Fri Jan 21, 2022 7:01 am

KembaWalker wrote:He's got more votes than his last ring had TV viewers. Wonder why they didn't watch the games

Or maybe, just maybe, it’s people voting more then once…

NyKnicks1714 · Post #35 » by **NyKnicks1714** » Fri Jan 21, 2022 7:11 am

art_tatum wrote:
NyKnicks1714 wrote:
art_tatum wrote:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.philstar.com/sports/2020/04/07/2006080/lebron-james-has-most-fake-instagram-followers-among-celebrity-athletes-study/amp/

All this says is that LeBron has a slightly higher percentage of fake Instagram followers than other players. You're just 100% making stuff up about fake All-star votes.

Same services for followers and likes/votes. Why wouldn't his team do it? Theyre just doing their PR job.
Also it's simple math. Look at the number of votes between the latest voting and the previous results. Look at how many votes were gained by Durant/curry/jokic/ other leaders vs LeBron. Clearly a discrepancy.
On NBA.com people usually vote for 10 players. So the majority of lebron's gain are from Twitter, where u can just search and find bots hashing LeBron and NBA all-star voting.

None of this is evidence of what you're claiming; it's just 100% speculation. You mention that LeBron got a lot more votes since the 2nd return, but how is that evidence of bot activity? There's no reason why his team wouldn't be working to get him votes from the start of voting if what you're claiming is true. You just made up a conclusion and are searching for evidence to support it...and not even doing a good job of that.

NyKnicks1714 · Post #36 » by **NyKnicks1714** » Fri Jan 21, 2022 7:13 am

Back to reality: this will be the 6th straight All-Star game where he's the leading vote-getter, and 9th overall.

JujitsuFlip · Post #37 » by **JujitsuFlip** » Fri Jan 21, 2022 7:19 am

lonzo_pelota wrote:wild not seeing guys like Bradley Beal, John wall, Kawhi Leonard, Victor Oladipo & Boogie cousins not gettin any votes off fans or just pure name recognition as they're all in there prime years and all multiple time all stars or were all there names omitted?

When the final fan vote tally is released, I'm sure there will be a lot of random names that received votes.

packforfreedom · Post #38 » by **packforfreedom** » Fri Jan 21, 2022 7:24 am

he's still one of the best players and well liked, so it's definitley not a shocker. This board just doesn't reflect reality.

nomansland · Post #39 » by **nomansland** » Fri Jan 21, 2022 10:31 am

Not a surprise and you can't really be mad. He's still really good, plays in a huge market, and will go down as one of the all-time greats.

There's a lot of garbage with some of those other votes though.

pr0wler · Post #40 » by **pr0wler** » Fri Jan 21, 2022 11:03 am

Too bad the actual All-Star Game itself has become a joke, and the selection process is really just a way for players to stat pad their resume and legacy.