{"id":493880,"date":"2026-04-22T12:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T10:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=493880"},"modified":"2026-04-22T12:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T10:12:10","slug":"vj-edgecombe-makes-history-with-30-and-10-as-76ers-stun-the-celtics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/vj-edgecombe-makes-history-with-30-and-10-as-76ers-stun-the-celtics\/","title":{"rendered":"VJ Edgecombe makes history with 30 and 10 as 76ers stun the Celtics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"2416\" data-end=\"2791\">As reported by <strong data-start=\"2431\" data-end=\"2439\">ESPN<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"2441\" data-end=\"2457\">VJ Edgecombe<\/strong> erupted for <strong data-start=\"2470\" data-end=\"2499\">30 points and 10 rebounds<\/strong> to lead the <strong data-start=\"2512\" data-end=\"2534\">Philadelphia 76ers<\/strong> to a <strong data-start=\"2540\" data-end=\"2550\">111-97<\/strong> road win over the <strong data-start=\"2569\" data-end=\"2587\">Boston Celtics<\/strong> in Game 2 of their first-round playoff series. It was a massive response from Philadelphia after the heavy loss in Game 1, and it brought the series back to <strong data-start=\"2745\" data-end=\"2752\">1-1<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2793\" data-end=\"3179\">The performance was also historic. According to <strong data-start=\"2841\" data-end=\"2849\">ESPN<\/strong>, Edgecombe became the <strong data-start=\"2872\" data-end=\"2899\">first rookie since 1998<\/strong> to post <strong data-start=\"2908\" data-end=\"2937\">30 points and 10 rebounds<\/strong> in a playoff game, and also the <strong data-start=\"2970\" data-end=\"3015\">youngest player in NBA postseason history<\/strong> to reach those numbers. It was the kind of game that instantly changes the perception of a young player on the biggest stage.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3181\" data-end=\"3537\"><strong data-start=\"3181\" data-end=\"3197\">Tyrese Maxey<\/strong> added <strong data-start=\"3204\" data-end=\"3217\">29 points<\/strong> and hit crucial shots late, while Boston struggled from beyond the arc in a familiar kind of playoff setback. For the <strong data-start=\"3336\" data-end=\"3345\">76ers<\/strong>, still without <strong data-start=\"3361\" data-end=\"3376\">Joel Embiid<\/strong>, the message was clear: the series is alive, and <strong data-start=\"3426\" data-end=\"3442\">VJ Edgecombe<\/strong> has already become one of the stories of these playoffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Philadelphia 76ers rookie delivered a historic playoff performance against the Boston Celtics<\/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-493880","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\/493880","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=493880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493880\/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=493880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493880"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=493880"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=493880"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=493880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}