It’s looking like Jayson Tatum will be an All-Star starter

On Thursday afternoon, the NBA launched the outcomes of the third spherical of 2024 All-Star voting. All 5 Celtics starters discovered themselves amongst the highest vote-getters within the Japanese Convention for the third straight week.

Jayson Tatum (3,717,311 votes), Jaylen Brown (977,953 votes), and Kristaps Porzingis (567,036 votes) all held their spots over the previous week. The frontcourt trio remained in third, fifth, and sixth locations respectively.

The “Inventory Change” backcourt duo of Derrick White (515,882 votes) and Jrue Vacation (407,126 votes) additionally noticed themselves stick in the identical slots. White stayed in seventh place amongst Japanese Convention guards, whereas Vacation caught in ninth.

The league stated that followers will proceed to have the ability to place votes by means of Saturday, earlier than the ultimate tally is revealed subsequent Thursday on the Jan. 25 version of TNT’s “Contained in the NBA.”

Fan voting solely applies to the beginning lineup. Three frontcourt gamers and two backcourt gamers from every convention are chosen by followers, whereas the reserves are picked by coaches, different gamers, in addition to a media panel.

As of now, it appears as if Tatum has locked up a spot with the sport’s starters, whereas Brown has a stable probability of being named a reserve. The fates of the remaining three Cs is a little more cloudy.

No group has ever seen greater than 4 gamers be named to an All-Star Sport. There have been 9 cases all through NBA historical past the place 4 gamers from the identical squad earned the honour. Three of these have been Celtics groups. They did it in 1962, 1975, after which 2011.