{"id":818733,"date":"2026-08-23T11:03:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T11:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/818733\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T11:03:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T11:03:29","slug":"sixers-notes-edgecombe-maxey-brown-lebron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/818733\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixers Notes: Edgecombe, Maxey, Brown, LeBron"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some outside observers have expressed concern that having so many stars on the Sixers might affect VJ Edgecombe<\/a>\u2018s development, but the second-year guard isn\u2019t worried about that, Chris Hine of The Philadelphia Inquirer<\/a> writes in a subscriber-only story. Speaking to reporters Saturday at his youth basketball camp, Edgecombe said he welcomes the additions of Jaylen Brown<\/a> and LeBron James<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt don\u2019t matter what happens, there\u2019s always going to be someone that has something to say,\u201d Edgecombe said. \u201cBut I just want to win. I\u2019m going to still be aggressive, still be myself. If that comes with less shots or more shots, who knows. I don\u2019t know how the course of the game is going to go. I\u2019m just excited to play alongside my teammates. I think we have a chance to do something really special.\u201d<\/p>\n

Edgecombe is coming off a fantastic first season where he averaged 16 PPG and finished third in the Rookie of the Year voting. He was viewed as a rising star playing alongside Tyrese Maxey<\/a> in the Sixers\u2019 backcourt, but his immediate role may have changed after the team\u2019s productive offseason. Rather than dwelling on that, Edgecombe views it as a learning opportunity.<\/p>\n

\u201c(I\u2019ll) have a bunch of questions, so I\u2019m going to have to control myself when it comes to asking questions,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m totally excited. It\u2019s such a blessing. I\u2019m going into Year 2, playing alongside my favorite player ever (James). \u2026 That\u2019s the main thing for me \u2014 just learning, getting to know them. They\u2019re all great persons. Down to earth, (they\u2019re) not acting super big-time like they are, but they\u2019re really a bunch of humble men. I\u2019m just glad to be around them.\u201d<\/p>\n

There\u2019s more from Philadelphia:<\/p>\n

In an interview with Sam Yip of HoopsHype<\/a>, Maxey says he\u2019s working to improve his leadership, playmaking skills and defense for the upcoming season. He also addresses the hierarchy for taking clutch shots with so many high-level scorers on the team, saying it will often depend on the circumstances. \u201cI think the biggest thing is we can\u2019t have anybody, nobody on this team can have an ego,\u201d Maxey said. \u201cWe have two guys that have won regular-season MVPs, two guys that have won Finals MVPs, multiple gold medal winners on this team, multiple 25-plus points per game, All-Stars, All-NBA. We\u2019re all pretty accomplished. So the ego has to drop and you have to do it collectively.\u201d
\nMark Medina of Ratings<\/a> talks to\u00a0Brown\u2019s trainer about the changes his client will encounter playing in Philadelphia. \u201cHe\u2019s going to see a lot more one-on-one coverages this year,\u201d Dash Lovell said of Brown. \u201cWhy would you double on that team? Who are you going to double off of on that team? Maxey? No. Are you going to double off \u2018Bron? LeBron is one of the best cutters in NBA history. If you watch LeBron off the ball, he doesn\u2019t have to stand to catch-and-shoot. If you turn your back, he\u2019s going to cut. He\u2019s going to get six or eight points just off of cuts.\u201d
\nBrown joined James and Maxey for a workout Wednesday morning in Los Angeles, relays Dave McMenamin of ESPN (Twitter link<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some outside observers have expressed concern that having so many stars on the Sixers might affect VJ Edgecombe\u2018s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":818734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3769],"tags":[679,7,78,185,6,678,207,3817,1263,971],"class_list":["post-818733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia-76ers","tag-76ers","tag-basketball","tag-jaylen-brown","tag-lebron-james","tag-nba","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-76ers","tag-philadelphia76ers","tag-tyrese-maxey","tag-vj-edgecombe"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117144492645232386","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818733","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=818733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/818734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}