Dwight Howard Leads All-Star Voting; Plans To Defend Slam Dunk Title

With 1,421,882 votes, Dwight Howard is leading all players in All-Star voting as of today. I'm surprised because LeBron James and Yao Ming are also still in the league lol. Orlando is ballin' though so I guess I shouldn't be too shocked. Other top vote getters include Kobe with 1,280,912, LeBron with 1,259,764, D-Wade with 1,229,858, and Yao with 1,114,709.

Anyway, Dwight won't just be in the All-Star game, he'll also be in the Slam Dunk Contest trying to defend his crown. Two of his challengers will be Nate Robinson and Rudy Gay (who shouldn't be allowed to participate after his showing last year lol), but the 4th will be decided by fan voting. Guess who you get to choose from?? Rudy Fernandez, Russell Westbrook, and somebody named Joe Alexander. Don't everyone go rush to vote at once lol.

Back to All-Star voting: Judging by the tallies so far, the starters for the East will be LeBron and K.G. at forward, D-Wade and Iverson at guard, and of course Dwight Howard in the middle. The Western starters are shaping up to be Tim Duncan and Amare Stoudemire at forward (though Carmelo is only about 24,000 votes behind Amare), Kobe and T-Mac at guard (though Chris Paul is just about 21,000 votes behind), and Yao at center. I can live with that.

You know what's sad?? Luke Ridnour (197,933) and Jose Calderon (193,715) currently have more votes than Joe Johnson (162,772) who's averaging 22.6 PPG. And you know what's even sadder than that?? Yi Jianlian (762,162) has more votes than Chris Bosh (500,700) and Paul Pierce (313,474). This is the reason they don't want fans to vote in these things lol.

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