Bieber's tweets generate over 50K All-Star votes for Kyle Low... er, Chris Paul

As of the second round of voting for the 2016 NBA All-Star game, Toronto Raptors' G Kyle Lowry was inches away from being voted in as a starter for the Eastern Conference. Dwyane Wade leads all East guards with 562K votes, with Kyrie Irving set to be voted as the second starter with 271K ballots to his name.

Sitting just a mere 30K votes behind Irving is Lowry (242K votes), who was voted in as a starter in last year's festivites. Lowry was an All Star despite a botched tweet vote from Justin Bieber.

Bieber attempted to boost Lowry's tally by tweeting his support. One problem, he didn't include #NBAVote in the ballot.

That sent over 55K tweets down the drain. Luckily, Lowry didn't need them.

This year is a different story.

Step to the plate, Justin Bieber, right? Apparently not.

Bieber went on to support a close friend in Chris Paul, and not only did he vote correctly this time, he sent out two tweets.

That's over 60K votes within hours of tweeting his support. Support that could have pushed Kyle Lowry past Irving in the pecking order.

At least he recognized his mistake this time around and got a vote in.

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