The NBA released the first round of voting results for the 2016 All-Star Game on Friday, and it sure looks like fans want to see Kobe Bryant head to Toronto and suit up for one more mid-February exhibition classic. [ Follow Dunks Don't Lie on Tumblr: The best slams from all of basketball] The Los Angeles Lakers superstar leads all vote-getters at the end of the first round, receiving 719,235 votes — more than 200,000 clear of reigning NBA Most Valuable Player Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors (510,202), who topped last year's All-Star balloting , and more than twice as many as LeBron James of the Cleveland Cavaliers (357,937), who has received the most votes of any Eastern Conference player. NBA Commissioner Adam Silver recently said he believed the 37-year-old Bryant "deserves" to be an All-Star in this, his 20th and final NBA season. Strictly on the merits, that's not really true; Kobe might not be "the 200th-best player in the league" anymore, now that he's got his legs back under him and is pocketing some of the unsightly jumpers he was taking earlier this season, but even his recent strong run of form — 20.4 points on 45.5 percent shooting, 4.6 rebounds,...