{"id":465813,"date":"2025-10-23T08:39:58","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T06:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=465813"},"modified":"2025-10-23T08:39:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T06:39:58","slug":"historic-debut-for-vj-edgecombe-34-points-in-sixers-win-over-celtics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/historic-debut-for-vj-edgecombe-34-points-in-sixers-win-over-celtics\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic Debut for VJ Edgecombe: 34 Points in Sixers\u2019 Win Over Celtics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"989\" data-end=\"1164\"><strong data-start=\"989\" data-end=\"1011\">Philadelphia 76ers<\/strong> rookie <strong data-start=\"1019\" data-end=\"1035\">VJ Edgecombe<\/strong> exploded for <strong data-start=\"1049\" data-end=\"1062\">34 points<\/strong> in a 117-116 win over the <strong data-start=\"1089\" data-end=\"1107\">Boston Celtics<\/strong>, the highest-scoring NBA debut since Wilt Chamberlain.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1166\" data-end=\"1439\">The Bahamian forward, formerly of <strong data-start=\"1200\" data-end=\"1210\">Baylor<\/strong>, broke <strong data-start=\"1218\" data-end=\"1237\">Allen Iverson\u2019s<\/strong> team record of 30 points and joined elite company \u2014 only <strong data-start=\"1295\" data-end=\"1315\">Chamberlain (43)<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1320\" data-end=\"1340\">Frank Selvy (35)<\/strong> scored more in their first game. \u201cI worked my whole life for moments like this,\u201d Edgecombe said.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1441\" data-end=\"1631\">Coach <strong data-start=\"1447\" data-end=\"1461\">Nick Nurse<\/strong> praised his composure beside <strong data-start=\"1491\" data-end=\"1507\">Tyrese Maxey<\/strong>, who added 40 points. Together, they combined for <strong data-start=\"1558\" data-end=\"1571\">74 points<\/strong>, the second-highest total ever by a duo on opening night.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n-H9zmuMJYg?si=kpesuxrjGr6iUuMB\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia 76ers rookie VJ Edgecombe exploded for 34 points in a 117-116 win over the Boston Celtics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":465812,"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-465813","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\/2025\/10\/maxresdefault.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465813","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=465813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465813"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=465813"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=465813"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=465813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}