This season's NBA All-Star voting is underway, the suspense of the All-Star starters is not small, there are many popular players in the league who have played well, Curry, Durant and other NBA big names over the years, as well as young stars such as Edwards, Doncic, and Haliburton.
Since 1975, the NBA has introduced fan voting in the All-Star vote, and since then there have been statistics of All-Star votes, and it is not easy for players to maintain high popularity for a long time, after all, a large number of young talents enter the NBA every year, and there are only 4 people who can be elected as All-Star voters for 3 consecutive years
Fourth place: "Dr. J" Julius Owen
He has been elected as the All-Star vote king for 3 consecutive years
He was elected All-Star vote champion 4 times in his career
Highest number of votes when elected king: 707012 votes
"Dr. J" Julius Irving is Jordan's idol, and his dunks in the game are very "beautiful", leaving many classic shots, including the free throw line dunk made in the All-Star Slam Dunk Contest when he played for ABA in 1976, and "Dr. J" also has many exaggerated layups, just like the baseline "gliding" the lever with the ball in one hand.
Dr. J "first played in the ABA league, played for 5 years, was selected as an All-Star in his rookie season, won the points king 3 times, became MVP 3 times, and led the team to win the championship 2 times, which can be said to be the top star in the league, and this situation continued after arriving in the NBA, in the 1976-77 season, "Dr. J" averaged 21 per game in his first season in the NBA6 points 85 rebounds and 37 assists 19 steals 14 blocks, All-Star selection, and the only two players with more than 300,000 votes at the time.
In 1978, "Dr. J" became an All-Star for the first time in his career, and for the next two seasons, George "The Iceman" Gervin became the ticket king for two consecutive years.
In 1981, "Dr. J" ended the record of George Gervin becoming the All-Star vote king in a row when he entered his prime, and became the vote king as the only player in the league to receive 300,000 votes, and thus sat firmly in the position of the All-Star vote king for three consecutive years, allowing the league to emerge "Magic" Johnson, Bird, Isiah Thomas and other young balloon stars.
In 1983, "Dr. J" received an all-star vote of 707012 votes, Bird and Isiah Thomas both had fewer than 500,000 votes, and there was also a gap of more than 100,000 votes between "Magic" Johnson and "Dr. J."
Dr. J was arguably one of the most popular stars in the NBA in the late '70s and most of the '80s, and his graceful posture in the game became an impression of dunks among a kind of stars, including Jordan, and played an important role in making the NBA game more flashy.
Third place: Carter
He has been elected as the All-Star vote king for 3 consecutive years
He was elected All-Star vote champion 4 times in his career
Highest number of votes when elected king: 2127183 votes
In the late 90s and the beginning of the new century, a group of excellent swingmen emerged in the league, including Kobe, Maddy, and Carter, who are well-known to fans. Cousin Maddie has never been elected All-Star vote king, and Carter became an All-Star vote champion one step ahead of Kobe, although he entered the NBA two years later than the latter.
In 2000, Carter, who had only played in the NBA for his second season, had soared to a considerable height, and the number of votes in the All-Star voting left Iverson, O'Neal, Garnett and other high-star stars behind, and the number of votes was more than 500,000 votes ahead of "Jordan ** Man" Grant Hill, becoming the All-Star vote king for the first time in his career with 1911973 votes.
Carter was arguably one of the most watched stars of the 2000 All-Star Games, and he became the "King of Slam Dunk" with a near-perfect performance in the slam dunk contest, and Carter is also credited with saving the struggling slam dunk contest.
In 2001 and 2002, Carter became the All-Star vote king twice, achieving the achievement of becoming the All-Star vote king for 3 consecutive years, and in the 2004 All-Star vote, Carter was re-elected as the All-Star vote king after a year, he is the only one who won more than 200,000 votes, look at the names of the stars behind him: Iverson, Kobe, Maddy, O'Neal, Garnett, it's hard not to be surprised.
Second place: Jordan
He has been elected as the All-Star vote king for 7 consecutive years
He was elected the All-Star vote champion 9 times in his career
Highest number of votes when elected All-Star voter: 2451136 votes
Jordan was selected as an All-Star in his rookie season and participated in the slam dunk contest, when the young "Flyers" had impressed a large number of fans with their performance in the game, and in the 1986 All-Star vote, even though Jordan missed a large number of games due to injury in the regular season for 3 games until the end of the season, he still got the highest 719143 votes among Eastern players, and it was also the 1060892 vote in the league second only to "Magic" Johnson.
In 1987, Jordan became the All-Star in his third season, topping the All-Star spot in an era of stars, beating opponents such as Bird, Barkley, "Magic" Johnson, Olajuwon, and Moses Malone. Moreover, Jordan stayed in the All-Star voting position for 7 years, from 1987 to 1993, there were new stars in the league, and there were opponents in the same period who played peak performances, but they couldn't beat Jordan in the All-Star vote.
Jordan also directly increased the maximum number of years to become an All-Star ticket king from 3 years to 7 years, 1997 and 1998, at this time Jordan has a lot of new faces standing next to the competitors, Grant Hill, O'Neal, Iverson, Kobe, etc., but Jordan has become the All-Star ticket king for 2 consecutive years.
First place: James
He has been elected as the All-Star vote king for 7 consecutive years
He was elected the All-Star vote champion 10 times in his career
Highest number of votes when elected as the All-Star voter: 9128231 votes
After Jordan, the achievement of becoming the All-Star vote king for 7 consecutive years was considered by many voices to be one of the most difficult records to break, but James' appearance made this achievement repeat in the league.
Although he missed the All-Star selection in his rookie season, in the 2005 All-Star voting, James's votes have come to the first place among Eastern defenders, ranking ahead of Iverson, Kidd and others, and in 2006, James's votes exceeded 200,000 votes, which was enough to make him the most voted in the East.
But neither James, O'Neal, Kobe Bryant was able to reach the top of the All-Star vote king in 2005 and 2006, Yao Ming was the player who became the vote king for two consecutive years, until 2007, James interrupted Yao Ming's record of being elected as the All-Star vote king in a row, but Yao Ming did not have the opportunity to become the All-Star vote king for 3 consecutive years, only ranked second in the league with a disadvantage of 64,333 votes, and he and James were the only two players who received more than 2,400,000 votes at that time.
After unlocking the first All-Star vote king achievement in his career, he was elected twice in 2010 and 2014, and since 2017, James has become the All-Star vote king for 7 consecutive years, even if there are many outstanding young stars in the league, Curry, Durant and others are also very popular, James is still firmly in the position of All-Star vote king between 2017 and 2023.
This season, James will have a chance to become an All-Star vote for the eighth consecutive year, and if he can achieve the record of the longest consecutive All-Star vote king in the NBA, do you think James can achieve this achievement?