{"id":124865,"date":"2025-06-26T00:44:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T00:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/124865\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T00:44:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T00:44:12","slug":"76ers-select-baylors-vj-edgecombe-with-no-3-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/124865\/","title":{"rendered":"76ers select Baylor&#8217;s VJ Edgecombe with No. 3 pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">After a disastrous season where <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3059318\/joel-embiid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Joel Embiid<\/a> only played a handful of games before needing knee surgery, Philadelphia&#8217;s reward was getting the third pick in Wednesday night&#8217;s NBA draft, which they used to select Baylor guard<a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5124612\/vj-edgecombe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">VJ Edgecombe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Edgecombe, who was part of the Bahamian national team last summer alongside multiple current NBA players, is an explosive 19-year-old guard who could be a long term complement to All-Star <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4431678\/tyrese-maxey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tyrese Maxey<\/a> in Philadelphia&#8217;s backcourt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The 76ers&#8217; pick nearly went to the NBA champion <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/okc\/oklahoma-city-thunder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> as part of the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3213\/al-horford\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Al Horford<\/a>-Danny Green swap five years ago, but it had a top-6 protection, letting the Sixers retain it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Cooper Flagg went to the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/dal\/dallas-mavericks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dallas Mavericks<\/a> at No. 1 while Dylan Harper went to the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/sa\/san-antonio-spurs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">San Antonio Spurs<\/a>, as expected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">At No. 4 the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/cha\/charlotte-hornets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Charlotte Hornets<\/a> selected Kon Knueppel out of Duke, a sweet-shooting guard who made the 2024-25 All-ACC team.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 ESPN Internet Ventures. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a disastrous season where Joel Embiid only played a handful of games before needing knee surgery, Philadelphia&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3769],"tags":[25309,679,7,2399,18633,130,6,12,67,678,207,3817],"class_list":{"0":"post-124865","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-76ers","8":"tag-25309","9":"tag-76ers","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-baylor-bears","12":"tag-edgecombe-vj","13":"tag-espn","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-nba-draft","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-philadelphia","18":"tag-philadelphia-76ers","19":"tag-philadelphia76ers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114746901590329448","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}