{"id":509573,"date":"2026-01-01T09:38:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T09:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/509573\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T09:38:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T09:38:38","slug":"nba-twitter-reacts-to-vj-edgecombe-lifting-sixers-over-grizzlies-in-ot-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/509573\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Twitter reacts to VJ Edgecombe lifting Sixers over Grizzlies in OT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/philadelphia-76ers\/20\/\" data-autotag=\"b3f2a355-8d98-44c0-a603-3f9a2d8bc375\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Philadelphia 76ers<\/a> walked out of FedEx Forum on Tuesday with a much-needed <a href=\"https:\/\/sixerswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/sixers\/2025\/12\/30\/player-grades-big-3-carries-sixers-to-big-road-win-over-grizzlies\/87967024007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">139-136 overtime win over the Memphis Grizzlies<\/a>. The win snapped a 3-game losing skid and it was also their first win of the season when the Big 3 plays together as Tyrese Maxey, Joel Embiid, and Paul George all delivered big moments.<\/p>\n<p>While Maxey and Embiid put up 34 points each and George knocked down three triples, it was rookie guard VJ Edgecombe who stole the headlines.<\/p>\n<p>Edgecombe scored 25 points on the night, 16 coming in the fourth quarter and overtime, and he drilled the game-winning triple with 1.7 seconds left in overtime. It was yet another impressive performance for the No. 3 overall pick in the guts of the game down the stretch.<\/p>\n<p>After his big showing, NBA Twitter gave its best reactions to what Edgecombe was able to do in a big moment against the Grizzlies:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">VJ EDGECOMBE NEEDS A CLUTCH NICKNAME EXPEDITIOUSLY<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sixers Nation (@PHLSixersNation) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PHLSixersNation\/status\/2006210752986677254?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 31, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">VJ Edgecombe is such a killer. We&#8217;re going to be talking about the Sixers lottery luck to get him for a long time.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Keith Smith (@KeithSmithNBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KeithSmithNBA\/status\/2006211742376841456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 31, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tyrese Maxey tonight:<\/p>\n<p>34 PTS<br \/>12 ASTS<br \/>13\/21 FG<br \/>4\/7 3PT<\/p>\n<p>Joel Embiid tonight:<\/p>\n<p>34 PTS<br \/>10 REBS<br \/>8 ASTS<\/p>\n<p>VJ Edgecombe tonight:<\/p>\n<p>25 PTS<br \/>4 STLS<br \/>GAME WINNER <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hwAUuQZAix\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/hwAUuQZAix<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ahmed\/The Ears\/IG: BigBizTheGod \ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddf4 (@big_business_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/big_business_\/status\/2006212595192156603?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 31, 2025<\/a><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Philadelphia 76ers walked out of FedEx Forum on Tuesday with a much-needed 139-136 overtime win over the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3795],"tags":[679,7,3279,1148,294,266,4196,293,177,4070,70,85,6,67,61,134,678,207,132,425,429,66,83,3725,256,1263,20172,971],"class_list":["post-509573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-memphis-grizzlies","tag-76ers","tag-basketball","tag-edgecombe","tag-fedexforum","tag-grizzlies","tag-listicle","tag-maxey","tag-memphis","tag-memphis-grizzlies","tag-memphisgrizzlies","tag-national","tag-national-sports","tag-nba","tag-news","tag-overall","tag-overall-positive","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-76ers","tag-positive","tag-smg","tag-smg-listicle","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-twitter","tag-tyrese","tag-tyrese-maxey","tag-vj","tag-vj-edgecombe"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115819177781562206","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509573","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=509573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}