NEW YORK, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- Houston's Yao Ming and Miami's Shaquille O'Neal continued to lead their conferences in all-star balloting released Thursday.
Yao led all players in the most recent tabulation with 1,888,533 votes while O'Neal had 1,817,828.
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Joining Yao as Western Conference leaders were forwards Kevin Garnett of Minnesota and Tim Duncan of San Antonio along with guards Tracy McGrady of Houston and Kobe Bryant of the Lakers.
In the East, O'Neal was joined by forwards Vince Carter of New Jersey and Grant Hill of Orlando along with guards Allen Iverson of Philadelphia and LeBron James of Cleveland.
Iverson leads James by less than 4,000 votes for the No. 1 spot among Eastern Conference guards.
