Amidst all of the excitement, All-star balloting closed yesterday. I don't know what time voting actually closed, but even if ballots closed at midnight, Kobe's 81 point game finished at around 9:00PT, 12:00ET, and I'm sure people weren't exactly thinking about the all-star game right after it happened.
As of January 19th, Kobe was less than 100,000 votes from passing Yao. That's only an additional 5%! Man, I would have loved to see our #8 take first in All-Star votes.

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