Here are the early NBA All-Star leading vote-getters

Milwaukee’s Giannis Antetokounmpo is the early leader in fan voting for the NBA All-Star Game, and LeBron James of the Los Angeles Lakers appears on track to extend his record and be chosen for the 21st time.

The first all-star voting update for this season’s revised game was released Thursday, with Antetokounmpo leading the overall standings with about 1.7 million votes. Denver’s Nikola Jokic is second overall with about 1.4 million votes, which is the best among all players in the Western Conference.

The 10 players in line to be selected as starters, at least based on fan voting: Antetokounmpo, Boston’s Jayson Tatum, New York’s Karl-Anthony Towns, Charlotte’s LaMelo Ball and Cleveland’s Donovan Mitchell of the Eastern Conference, and Jokic, Phoenix’s Kevin Durant, Oklahoma City’s Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Dallas’ Luka Doncic and West’s James.

However, there will not be 10 starters this year for the All-Star Game, which will take place on February 16 in San Francisco. There will be more.

This is the first year of a new All-Star format, with three games. The 24 All-Stars will be divided into three teams of eight players each by TNT personalities and former NBA greats Shaquille O’Neal, Charles Barkley, and Kenny Smith.

These three teams will compete in a four-team tournament, with the remaining team being the team of NBA rookies and second-year players that will win the Rising Stars event on All-Star Friday. There are two semi-final matches, followed by the winners meeting in a championship match – the first team to reach 40 points is the winner of all three matches.

This will be very different from last year when the final score of the All-Star Game was 211-186 – the best score in history.

Voting continues until January 20.

Fan voting makes up 50 percent of the All-Star starter selection formula, with media voting accounting for another 25 percent and current NBA player voting accounting for the remaining 25 percent.

The 10 players designated as starters – although there will technically be at least 15 starters in the All-Star “games” – will be announced on January 23, and the reserves who will be selected by NBA head coaches will be announced on January 30.