Hawks forward Vince Carter finished eighth among Eastern Conference frontcourt players in final NBA All-Star balloting released Thursday.
Despite playing mostly a reserve role for the Hawks as he plays his 21st season, Carter garnered significant support in the fan and media balloting.
Carter finished seventh in fan and media balloting and 12th in player balloting with 11 votes. That gave him a weighted score of 8.25. He finished behind starters Giannis Antetokounmpo (1.0), Kawhi Leonard (1.75) and Joel Embiid (2.5). Carter also finished behind Jayson Tatum (4.75), Jimmy Butler (5.25), Blake Griffin (6.0) and Pascal Siakam (7.5) and ahead of Andre Drummond (9.25) and Nikola Vucevic (9.75).
Carter’s fan balloting total was 540,939 votes.
Hawks reserve point guard Jeremy Lin, who was eighth in fan balloting through several updates, finished ninth in fan voting with 449,166 votes. He was 23rd overall after player and media results with a weighted score of 21.75.
Carter and Lin were the Hawks’ leading vote-getters in fan balloting.
John Collins and Trae Young also received consideration in the total balloting process.
In the Eastern Conference frontcourt, Collins finished 31st in fan balloting with 55,563 votes and received four player votes. He did not receive any media votes in the top three and had a weighted score of 24.5, placing him 26th overall.
In the Eastern Conference backcourt, Young finished 21st in fan balloting with 106,790 votes and received two player votes. He did not receive a media vote in the top two and had a weighted score of 19.0, placing him 17th overall.
In determining All-Star Game starters, fans accounted for 50 percent of the vote while players and media accounted for 25 percent each.
After all votes were tallied, players were ranked in each conference by position (guard and frontcourt) within each of the three voting groups. Each player’s score was calculated by averaging his weighted rank from the fan votes, the player votes and the media votes. The two guards and three frontcourt players with the best score in each conference were named NBA All-Star Game starters.
The All-Star game starters are:
Eastern Conference: Giannis Antetokounmpo, Kawhi Leonard, Joel Embiid, Kyrie Irving and Kemba Walker.
Western Conference: LeBron James, Kevin Durant, Paul George, Steph Curry and James Harden.
Antetokounmpo and James received the most votes in each conference and will serve as team captains. They will draft the eight remaining players from the starter pool in the first round and then all 14 players from the reserve pool in the second round on Feb. 7 at 7 p.m.
The All-Star game will take place on Feb. 17 in Charlotte.
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