PARIS — Milwaukee’s Giannis Antetokounmpo has passed Brooklyn’s Kevin Durant for the All-Star Game voting lead among Eastern Conference players, now putting him on track to be a captain for the Feb. 19 game in Salt Lake City.
Antetokounmpo had 5,970,196 votes entering Thursday, the NBA said in the third update of the All-Star balloting. Durant is 132,014 votes behind, with 5,838,182.
LeBron James of the Los Angeles Lakers remains the overall voting leader, with 6,506,682 votes. James has been a captain in all five of the NBA’s previous uses of the format where the leading vote-getters from the Eastern and Western conferences get to pick their rosters from the other selections.
Silver, Macron meet in Paris
PARIS — NBA Commissioner Adam Silver had a meeting this week in Paris and was asked by a gracious host how he takes his coffee.
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“Un sucre?” French President Emmanuel Macron asked.
Over that coffee, the leader of the NBA and the leader of France struck a deal to work together with hopes of continuing to grow the game of basketball internationally — a marriage of perfect timing, given how French star Victor Wembanyama is a few months from coming to the NBA and the Paris Olympics are about 18 months away.
KNICKS: New York center Mitchell Robinson will miss at least three weeks after having surgery to repair a fractured right thumb Thursday, one day after being injured in a loss to Washington.
5 The Sacramento Kings won their fifth straight game Wednesday, beating the Los Angeles Lakers 116-111. The streak is the second this season of at least five games for the Kings, and it marks the first time since the 2004-05 season that the Kings have had at least two five-game winning streaks.
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