KT Heo-hoon, who won the 1st place in the All-Star vote for two consecutive seasons. IS photo
The Huh family brothers’ confrontation is now the best box-office content in Korean Professional Basketball (KBL).
Although there is no All-Star game held like an annual event every season, the All-Star fan vote for players who received the fans’ love in the 2020-21 season of Hyundai Mobis professional basketball was unchanged. KBL announced on the 5th the results of the All-Star fan voting, which took place for a total of 25 days from December 11th to the 4th of last year. The result ended with the victory of his younger brother, Heo Hoon, after a two-off match between’Heo brothers’ Heo Hoon (kt) and Heo Woong (DB).
Heo Hoon won the 1st place in the All-Star Fan Vote, winning 32,642 out of a total of 73,545 votes. Heo Hoon, who had the honor of rising to the top of the fan vote in the 2019-20 season, secured the position of KBL’s top star by securing the No. 1 All-Star for two consecutive seasons. In addition, Heo Woong, who took 6th place in the last season’s vote, received 31,421 votes, raising the ranking to second place after his younger brother.
The two sons of former coach Heo Jae of’Basketball President’ have been proud of their popularity ever since their professional debut. Heo Woong, who stepped on the KBL court before his younger sibling, was ranked No. 1 in the fan vote for two consecutive seasons in the 2015-16 season and 2016-17 season in the All-Star fan vote. Following his brother, Heo Hoon also showed off his popularity by taking the first place in the fan vote for two consecutive seasons.In particular, this vote also set a record for the brothers to take the first and second place side by side for the first time since the launch of professional basketball.
Song Gyo-chang (KCC) and Yang Hong-seok (kt), who competed in fierce competition with Heo Woong, ranked 3rd and 4th with 31,317 votes and 3914 votes, respectively, and Si-rae Kim (LG, 27,938 votes) took 5th place. did. Four of the top five voters except Heo Woong proved their unchanging popularity by ranking in the top five once again following last season. In addition, the first players selected as All-Star from the list of 24 players were Lee Dae-heon (Electronic Land), Park Jun-young (kt), Moon Seong-gon (KGC Ginseng Corporation), Izea Hicks (Samsung), and Tyler Davis (KCC). Caddy Laren (LG) was ranked 10th in the result of a fan vote, but Kim Hyun-soo (Samsung) was added to the final list of All-Stars as he was replaced by Terrico White, a substitute due to injury.
KBL provided
This All-Star Games will not be held in order to comply with the government’s COVID-19 prevention policy, to consider the safety of fans and players, and to ensure stable operation of the remaining games this season. KBL said, “In order to appease fans’ regrets, we prepared a program in which All-Star players and fans directly communicate and participate in real-time broadcasting using KBL TV channels such as YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook during the All-Star Break period from the 14th to the 18th. “I plan to proceed.” In addition, there will be an event in which fans vote online to determine the winner of the video of’the best scenes of three-point shot and dunk shot this season’ recommended by each club. The 24 All-Star players selected by fan voting will play the rest of the season by attaching a commemorative patch with the All-Star Games logo on their team uniforms after the break.
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