{"id":448178,"date":"2025-06-26T07:19:53","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T05:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=448178"},"modified":"2025-06-26T07:19:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T05:19:53","slug":"76ers-select-edgecombe-in-nba-draft-pelicans-trade-up-for-queen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/76ers-select-edgecombe-in-nba-draft-pelicans-trade-up-for-queen\/","title":{"rendered":"76ers select Edgecombe in NBA Draft, Pelicans trade up for Queen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"219\" data-end=\"568\">After a tough season marred by <strong data-start=\"250\" data-end=\"267\">Joel Embiid\u2019s<\/strong> injury, the <strong data-start=\"280\" data-end=\"302\">Philadelphia 76ers<\/strong> used the No. 3 pick in the 2025 NBA Draft to select <strong data-start=\"355\" data-end=\"371\">VJ Edgecombe<\/strong>, a 19-year-old Bahamian guard out of Baylor. \u201cI had no clue until about 15 seconds before my name was called,\u201d said Edgecombe, seen as a promising long-term backcourt partner for <strong data-start=\"551\" data-end=\"567\">Tyrese Maxey<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"570\" data-end=\"826\">In a surprise twist, <strong data-start=\"591\" data-end=\"605\">Ace Bailey<\/strong>, projected for most of the season as the likely No. 3 pick, slipped to No. 5, where the <strong data-start=\"694\" data-end=\"707\">Utah Jazz<\/strong> snapped him up. The <strong data-start=\"728\" data-end=\"749\">San Antonio Spurs<\/strong> added <strong data-start=\"756\" data-end=\"772\">Dylan Harper<\/strong> with the second pick and <strong data-start=\"798\" data-end=\"815\">Carter Bryant<\/strong> at No. 14.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"828\" data-end=\"1110\">Meanwhile, the <strong data-start=\"843\" data-end=\"867\">New Orleans Pelicans<\/strong> acquired the No. 13 pick from the <strong data-start=\"902\" data-end=\"919\">Atlanta Hawks<\/strong> to draft <strong data-start=\"929\" data-end=\"944\">Derik Queen<\/strong>, who made headlines with the only buzzer-beater winner of the 2025 NCAA tournament. Atlanta received the No. 23 pick and an unprotected 2026 first-rounder in return.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1112\" data-end=\"1156\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><em data-start=\"1112\" data-end=\"1126\">Source: ESPN<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia bets on the explosive talent of VJ Edgecombe, while New Orleans trades up to grab Derik Queen, the NCAA Tournament buzzer-beater hero<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":371864,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-448178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Philadelphia-76ers.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448178"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=448178"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=448178"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=448178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}