Fans Voting Funny

I was about to say that fans voting for All-Stars is suspect or not working, but honestly, I don't have a better solution.  The fans pick the 10 starters and the coaches pick the other 14 players that get to suit up.  There are 4 days left in the voting for the starters of the ASG and so far this is what it's going to look like:

EAST

Guards: Dwayne Wade, Allen Iverson

Forwards: LeBron James, Kevin Garnett

Center: Dwight Howard

WEST

Guards: Kobe Bryant, Tracy McGrady

Forwards: Tim Duncan, Carmelo Anthony

Center: Yao Ming

However, this year especially has been strange.   The official count is here.  However, here are some items of interest perhaps for those of you who haven't really looked at it.  Let's do a top 5 for each conference.

Western Conference:

5.) The fact that Tracy McGrady has 157,063 more votes than Chris Paul actually kind of boggles me.  I mean, I know T-Mac's been around longer, but really?  We're talking about being more popular than a guy that played in the most recent Olympics and was second in MVP voting last season.

4.) 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th for Forward voting proceed like so; Bruce Bowen, Shane Battier, Luis Scola, Josh Howard, LaMarcus Aldridge.  Seems a little backwards to me.

3.) Rafer Alston has 105,077 more votes than Brandon Roy.

2.) Houston has 6 players in top 10 voting for their respective position, all the starters plus 6th man.

1.) Nick Collison has more votes than Marcus Camby and Chris Kaman combined.

Eastern Conference

5.) Samuel Dalembert is the no 2 center in terms of voting popularity, that's in front of Rasheed Wallace, Jermaine O'Neal, Al Horford, and Andrew Bogut

4.) Yi Jianlian is only 159,466 votes from taking Kevin Garnett's starting spot, and is a comfortable 464,421 votes ahead of the next player; Chris Bosh.  That difference is almost the number of votes that the next player (Paul Pierce) has; 486,656 (the China vote).

3.) Dwight Howard has the most votes (2,102,368); yes, more than Yao Ming (1,758,499), Kobe Bryant (1,903,798), LeBron James (1,940,162), Tim Duncan (1,454,918), and Dwayne Wade (1,818,717).  That's right, if you did the math, the next closest is LeBron James, by 162,206, which means Yi will become a starter before someone becomes more popular than Howard.

2.) Luke Ridnour has more votes than Derrick Rose, Jose Calderon, Joe Johnson, and Jameer Nelson (and by that note teammate Michael Redd as well).  Who would you rather have from Milwaukee? 

1.) The only Wizards to make it onto the top 10 voting per their position are Gilbert Arenas and Brendan Haywood, who have played a grand total of 0 games this entire regular season.