Bahamas rookie dominates NBA start

This year's NBA draught people is considered 1 of the strongest successful caller times, and peculiar attraction is focused connected Dallas Mavericks' Cooper Flagg, the archetypal wide prime successful the draught and a genuinely large talent. However, successful the opening days of the NBA season, 1 rookie managed to divert attraction from Flagg to himself.

V. J. Edgecombe, the 20-year-old Bahamas planetary who was taken by the Philadelphia 76ers with the 3rd wide pick, is playing brilliantly. Last night, successful Philadelphia's 3rd triumph successful the archetypal 3 games of the season, helium had 26 points, 7 assists and 4 rebounds. At the commencement of his career, helium had already reached an mean of 25 points, six assists and 5.7 rebounds per game.

The champion rookie of this century

Edgecombe has scored a full of 75 points truthful far, and nary subordinate successful this period has managed to people that overmuch successful the archetypal 3 games of the NBA league. He besides became the archetypal defender successful NBA past to mean much than 25/5/5 aft the archetypal 3 games.

"I consciousness great, I didn't expect this start, but I similar a situation and I'm acceptable for anything," said Edgecombe aft past night's win. The 1.93-meter shooting defender played 1 twelvemonth astatine Baylor University earlier being drafted. He stands retired with his attacking game, exceptional velocity and athleticism, and his shooting is truly impressive.

He besides had notable performances for the Bahamas nationalist team, a Caribbean state with a colonisation of 400,000, with which helium was adjacent to qualifying for the Olympic Games past year. In the qualifiers, the Bahamas bushed Finland and Poland, but were stopped by Spain successful a choky game.

Edgecombe's archetypal 3 games successful the NBA person shown his singular form:
34 points, 7 rebounds, 3 assists - win
15 points, six rebounds, 8 assists, 3 steals - win
26 points, 4 rebounds, 7 assists - win

The superb 20-year-old is already drafting admiration from fans and experts, and galore judge that this is conscionable the opening of his large NBA career. The experienced rookie shows that the endowment from the Bahamas tin beryllium astatine the apical of satellite basketball.