{"id":639869,"date":"2026-03-05T00:33:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T00:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/639869\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T00:33:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T00:33:20","slug":"76ers-vj-edgecombe-out-at-least-1-game-with-bruised-back-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/639869\/","title":{"rendered":"76ers&#8217; VJ Edgecombe out at least 1 game with bruised back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">PHILADELPHIA &#8212;<a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/5124612\/vj-edgecombe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">VJ Edgecombe<\/a> will miss Wednesday&#8217;s game against Utah with a low back bruise suffered by the 76ers&#8217; star rookie a night earlier on a hard fall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Sixers said Edgecombe would be evaluated again ahead of Saturday&#8217;s game at Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Edgecombe was fouled by San Antonio&#8217;s <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/5061568\/carter-bryant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Carter Bryant<\/a> on a 3-point attempt on Tuesday night and grimaced as he was helped up by his teammates. Edgecombe stayed in the game and went 2 of 3 from the free-throw line.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">With the 76ers down 78-53 at halftime, Edgecombe did not return. He scored six points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The No. 3 pick in the draft, Edgecombe, the MVP of the 2026 Rising Stars game, is one of three rookies in the NBA this season averaging at least 15.0 points, 5.0 rebounds, and 3.0 assists per game. He ranks first among rookies in steals (1.5), while ranking third in scoring (15.3), tied third in assists (3.9), and seventh in rebounds (5.5).<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The 76ers also will play without <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> as he sits out the final game of a scheduled three straight games off with a strained right oblique.br\/]<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 ESPN Internet Ventures. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA &#8212;VJ Edgecombe will miss Wednesday&#8217;s game against Utah with a low back bruise suffered by the 76ers&#8217;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[83357,7,18633,130,6,67,207],"class_list":["post-639869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-83357","tag-basketball","tag-edgecombe-vj","tag-espn","tag-nba","tag-news","tag-philadelphia-76ers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116173760486438619","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639869","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=639869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}