Thunder Twitter reacts to SGA dropping below Caruso, Thompson in All-Star vote

In the NBA All-Star voting returns Thursday, OKC Thunder fans quickly noticed that Alex Caruso and Klay Thompson led Shai Gilgeous-Alexander.

There was a pretty obvious omission from the NBA All-Star voting ballot return on Thursday. Oklahoma City Thunder guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander had dropped out of the top 10.

The other nine guards who had been in the first release of results remained on the list in a slightly differed order. Los Angeles Lakers guard Alex Caruso had jumped onto the list in place of Gilgeous-Alexander.

Thunder fans on Twitter expressed outrage that Caruso, a role player off the bench for the Lakers, and injury Golden State Warriors star Klay Thompson were in the top 10 while the emerging Thunder star wasn’t.

It’s a taste of those enormous fan bases in SoCal and the Bay Area.

Last week, Gilgeous-Alexander had 99,286 votes and was in ninth, ahead of Thompson.

After the results this Thursday were released, ESPN reporter Royce Young tweeted about how strong the guard has played this season.

Oklahoma City fans were not pleased about Gilgeous-Alexander falling off the list.

There were also tweets that specifically addressed the fact that Caruso and Thompson are on the list.

That’s the way fan voting works, though! It’s an annual tradition to get angry at role players having a larger fan base than the star on the hometown team you root for.

Fans account for 50% of the all-star vote. Current players’ votes count for 25% and the vote of media members who are counted receive the remaining 25%.

To vote for the Thunder guard, visit NBA’s website or app or post a tweet that contains the hashtags #ShaiGilgeousAlexander and #NBAAllStar.

Caruso and Thompson fans are simply doing this much, much more frequently than Thunder fans.

Voting goes through 10:59 p.m. Central Time on Tuesday.