VJ Edgecombe, Sixers and Boston Celtics
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VJ Edgecombe delivered a decisive performance as the Philadelphia 76ers completed their turnaround against the Boston Celtics last Saturday. The rookie scored 23 points in the 109-100 win in Boston, helping seal one of the most remarkable comebacks of the postseason.
76ers guard guard V.J. Edgecombe filled the stat sheet in a Game 7 win over the Celtics, pulling off an NBA first for a rookie in the playoffs.
The Philadelphia 76ers rookie VJ Edgecombe put together a stat line that hasn't been seen from an NBA rookie in the history of the game.
High school basketball had shut down in his native Bahamas. He moved to Florida, where he was playing AAU, but not yet high school basketball. Then Long Island Lutheran – a basketball powerhouse
At the site of his historic NBA debut, 20-year-old VJ Edgecombe has a chance to help the Sixers complete their most impressive playoff series victory of his lifetime.
With the 2025-26 NBA regular season in the rearview mirror, it's now time to look back and reflect on all that the 2025 rookie class showed us in their debut campaigns.
VJ Edgecombe revealed the main guy who had his back after the 76ers suffered a 32-point beatdown in Game 1 against the Celtics.
BOSTON (AP) — Paul George was in the middle of heaping praise on teammate and 76ers rookie V.J. Edgecombe’s efforts in Philadelphia’s 111-97 Game 2 win over Boston, when he realized he wasn’t even sure about something.
BOSTON — TD Garden is where VJ Edgecombe introduced himself to the NBA world. And where he winked at a television camera in the midst of a historic playoff performance. And, now, where he helped the 76ers finish off their comeback from down three games to one — and vanquish their Celtics playoff demons — to stunningly catapult themselves into the second round.