{"id":602754,"date":"2026-02-14T13:20:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T13:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/602754\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T13:20:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T13:20:15","slug":"nba-rising-stars-2026-recap-team-vince-wins-championship-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/602754\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Rising Stars 2026 recap: Team Vince wins championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Team Vince won the 2026 NBA Rising Stars championship on Friday night with Washington Wizards guard Kyshawn George contributing in both contests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">In the semifinals, Team Vince played Team T-Mac which also featured Wizards guard Bub Carrington and forward Tre Johnson. In that contest, Team Vince won 41-36 with George scoring 4 points and VJ Edgecombe leading the way with 17 points for the victors. For Team T-Mac, Johnson scored 8 points while Carrington also scored 2 more.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">In the other semifinal, Team Melo beat Team Austin, 40-34.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The final had Team Vince facing off against Team Melo and won 25-24. George scored 2 points while Edgecombe led again with 6 points. Edgecombe also won the Rising Stars MVP award.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It\u2019s good to see one of the Wizards\u2019 younger players come away with some hardware leaving the Rising Stars challenge. From hereon, Washington won\u2019t really be part of All-Star Weekend. So I hope you enjoy Valentine\u2019s Day tomorrow and the long weekend which includes President\u2019s Day on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Team Vince won the 2026 NBA Rising Stars championship on Friday night with Washington Wizards guard Kyshawn George&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3780],"tags":[7,2644,3279,6333,6,76955,31578,80361,76954,952,1296,682,468,3892,683],"class_list":{"0":"post-602754","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-wizards","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-bub-carrington","10":"tag-edgecombe","11":"tag-kyshawn-george","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-team-austin","14":"tag-team-melo","15":"tag-team-t-mac","16":"tag-team-vince","17":"tag-tre-johnson","18":"tag-vince","19":"tag-washington","20":"tag-washington-wizards","21":"tag-washingtonwizards","22":"tag-wizards"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116069192407106452","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602754","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=602754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}