NBA to account for spelling errors in social media All-Star voting
Twitter: Home to many things, including egregious spelling mistakes. And with the NBA's All-Star balloting practice of allowing fans to vote on the platform by posting a player's name with the hashtag "NBAVOTE," the league appears prepared to deal with the onslaught of incorrectly spelled versions of Giannis Antetokounmpo, among others.
The league confirmed to both The Boston Globe's Adam Himmelsbach and NBC's Dane Carbaugh that there's a system in place to pick up those errors.
BTW I asked about NBA All-Star fan Twitter votes being misspelled and was told the system would pick those up (Isiah/Isaiah) (Dwayne/Dwyane)
— Adam Himmelsbach (@AdamHimmelsbach) January 6, 2017
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This season, balloting has changed from past years, however, as players and select media will account for 50 percent of the total vote - even though they'll each get only one. The numbers will then be combined in a slightly confusing mathematical formula:
Reached out to the NBA offices for clarification on how exactly All-Star voting will work this year, and here's what they shared: pic.twitter.com/c6U42s7Xgt
— Andrew Lynch (@AndrewLynch) January 5, 2017
Fans - including those same players and media members - can still vote unlimited times with the Twitter hashtag, which is something LeBron James exercised his right to do on Sunday.