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NBA All-Star voting begins on the NBA app and NBA.com beginning Dec. 21, and starting on Christmas before five marquee games tip off, there will be voting via Amazon Alexa for the first time.
The user must have an Alexa-enabled device, enable the “NBA All-Star” skill, say “Alexa, open NBA All-Star,” and then request to vote for the player of choice. Voters can submit a maximum of one player name per request to Alexa. Users can submit votes for 10 unique players per Amazon account each day from Dec. 25-Jan. 15.
Voting for All-Star starters is also available via Facebook and Facebook using the hashtag #NBAVOTE, and on Twitter, fans can vote by retweeting as well. Each Facebook post and tweet may include only one player’s name.
Using Google Search, fans can search “NBA Vote All-Star” or “NBA Vote (insert team name)” to use voting cards.
In China, users of Sina Weibo and members of the Tencent NBA community can vote at China.NBA.com/vote.
The All-Star starters — including the two team captains — for the Feb. 18 game at Staples Center in Los Angeles will be officially announced one month earlier. Fans will account for 50 percent of the vote, while current players and a media panel will account for 25 percent each.
Under a new All-Star Game format that replaces the traditional matchup between the Eastern Conference and Western Conference, the team rosters will be chosen by the captains — the two All-Star starters from each conference who receive the most fan votes in his conference.
