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Bruce Bowen, 3rd in voting behind Amare???

Can I say W T F? Obviously something happened here, because on Jan 8th, Bowen only had 509,593 votes, and was ranked 7th among all Western Conference Forwards.

Vote Tally on January 8th:

http://www.nba.com/2009/news/01/08/010809allstarreturns/index.html

Forwards
Player Votes
Tim Duncan (SA) 1,454,918
Carmelo Anthony (Den) 905,121
Amare Stoudemire (Pho) 894,690
Ron Artest (Hou) 890,992
Dirk Nowitzki (Dal) 837,482
Pau Gasol (LAL) 618,943
Bruce Bowen (SA) 509,593
Shane Battier (Hou) 482,724
Luis Scola (Hou) 281,372
Josh Howard (Dal) 255,698
LaMarcus Aldridge (Por) 212,651

Final Vote Tally:

Forwards
Player Votes
Tim Duncan (SA) 2,578,168
Amare Stoudemire (Pho) 1,460,429
Bruce Bowen (SA) 1,392,398
Ron Artest (Hou) 1,362,565
Carmelo Anthony (Den) 1,337,519
Dirk Nowitzki (Dal) 1,107,926
Pau Gasol (LAL) 948,301
Shane Battier (Hou) 694,112
LaMarcus Aldridge (Por) 497,550
Luis Scola (Hou) 405,851
Josh Howard (Dal) 298,810
Guards
Player Votes
Kobe Bryant (LAL) 2,805,397
Chris Paul (NO) 2,134,798
Tracy McGrady (Hou) 1,678,516
Manu Ginobili (SA) 1,642,350
Tony Parker (SA) 1,084,361
Steve Nash (Pho) 677,211
Jamal Crawford (GS) 665,038
Rafer Alston (Hou) 550,199
Jason Kidd (Dal) 477,792
Brandon Roy (Por) 468,688
Chauncey Billups (Den)

466,073