VJ Edgecombe Rumors

That stretch spelled the difference between this version of the Sixers and the regular-season one. They have displayed an attention to detail and a level of precision and execution over the last three games that wasn’t there during the year. “The Knicks are a really great team,” VJ Edgecombe said. “A really great team. Obviously, they’ve played together for a minute. They have a lot of great chemistry. They have one of the best starting five groups in the league and they play really hard.”

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Oh No He Didn't: Nick Nurse: "(VJ) kind of came out of the halftime saying I got (Derrick) White and I'm gonna do better on him because White was cooking. I think White might have had 2 points in the 3rd quarter...and a lot of that was VJ"

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"To be honest, I just feel the flow," Edgecombe said before the Sixers held a Saturday morning shootaround to get in their final pieces of preparation for Game 7 of their first-round series against the Celtics. "Just feel the flow. I just feel the flow. It's a really good team we're playing against, so I just feel like I have to step up my game and just be aggressive."

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Nick DePaula: VJ Edgecombe is debuting the “3SSB” Adidas AE 2 PEs tonight

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NBA Communications: The 2025-26 Kia NBA Rookie of the Year Award winner will be revealed tonight at 7 PM ET on Peacock and NBCSN. The three finalists: ▪️VJ Edgecombe, @sixers ▪️Cooper Flagg, @dallasmavs ▪️Kon Knueppel, @hornets

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VJ Edgecombe recognizes that he has probably become “annoying” to Paul George and Kelly Oubre Jr. But the 76ers’ rookie guard will continue peppering his veteran teammates with “nonstop” questions throughout their first-round playoff series against the Boston Celtics. “I just go there talking to them about any little thing I see,” Edgecombe said following Thursday’s practice. “Is this how it’s supposed to be? Is this how it’s not supposed to be? “They’re probably annoyed, but I don’t care. I’m going to keep asking.”

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Adam Aaronson: Joe Mazzulla on VJ Edgecombe: “When he’s at his best, he’s a three-level scorer… He’s gotten better and better during the year.”

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Kyle Neubeck: Important: VJ Edgecombe tells reporters he was NOT intentionally looking at the camera and was winking at a teammate (he thinks it was Tyrese Maxey) “He was just in line of the camera”

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Adam Aaronson: VJ Edgecombe says it’s “great to see him around” when asked about Joel Embiid. “I’m just glad that he’s okay. It could have been a lot worse.” Edgecombe doesn’t ask Embiid when he’s coming back because everyone else already is. He just asks Embiid how he & his family are doing.

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Mazzulla said another of VJ Edgecombe’s 3-pointers came as the result of the Celtics over-helping off the strongside corner. Then, Mazzulla shared several other long balls Boston could have prevented. “Again, it goes back to the other ones,” Mazzulla said. “The two (Quentin) Grimes ones that we gave up on over-help, those are more impactful than some of the Edgecombe ones because that’s another guy that’s impacting the game. He’s a really good player, and he can impact it there. It’s those ones. Oubre missed a bunch in Game 1 that he got in Game 2. He got a corner one in transition off a pick-and-roll with Maxey across from our bench, he made that one. (Justin) Edwards got one with two seconds left on the shot clock because we kind of gambled and gave up one late in the clock. We have to go back and look at the ones that come schematically and tactically and which ones come situationally that we have to be better at in certain moments.”

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Instead, this year’s Game 1 Playoff starters featured 13 players making their first post-season appearance. They are mostly second year players, but there is one Rookie starting for a playoff team, VJ Edgecombe for the Philadelphia 76ers.

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Tim Bontemps: Final: Sixers 111, Celtics 97 A 17-3 run for Philadelphia in the fourth quarter – after Boston had cut the lead all the way down to 2 points – lifts the Sixers to a win and evens the series at a game apiece. Rookie VJ Edgecombe had 30 and 10. Game 3 is Friday in Philly.

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Tim Bontemps: Per the great @StatsWilliams VJ Edgecombe has now surpassed Magic Johnson as the youngest player in NBA playoff history to have at least 30 points and 10 rebounds in a playoff game. Not bad.

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StatMuse: VJ Edgecombe is the first rookie since Tim Duncan with a 30/10 playoff game. The first rookie guard to do it since Magic Johnson.

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