Sixers rookie VJ Edgecombe, 'just out there having fun,' stars in home debut: 'I can't wait for him to get started with his career'

PHILADELPHIA – VJ Edgecombe watches basketball... a lot.

"I'm not even watching a Netflix show or nothing," he said after posting a dominant two-way performance in the final game of his first NBA preseason. "I just need to go on YouTube to watch basketball... I just watch a lot of basketball."

Edgecombe has smiled as viewers react with surprise at his flashes of advanced feel as a ball-handler. He is a 20-year-old rookie, after all, and one of his supposed weaknesses entering the 2025 NBA Draft was his on-ball skill. Before the season could even begin, though, Edgecombe has proven so much to his team that it reacted by putting him on the ball frequently and moving All-Star Tyrese Maxey away from it. He believes it is the product of his obsession with watching basketball. However it happe