{"id":312708,"date":"2025-11-28T17:43:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T17:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/312708\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T17:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T17:43:10","slug":"given-last-seasons-disaster-even-as-late-as","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/312708\/","title":{"rendered":"Given last season&#8217;s disaster &#8212; even as late as \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/47110960\/nba-intel-hearing-maxey-edgecombe-embiid-george-76ers-future\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Given last season&#039;s disaster -- even as late as January, team sources were insisting they didn&#039;t see a realistic path for Philadelphia to keep that top-six protected pick -- getting a player with that kind of ceiling is an immense change of fortune;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Given last season&#8217;s disaster &#8212; even as late as January, team sources were insisting they didn&#8217;t see a realistic path for Philadelphia to keep that top-six protected pick &#8212; getting a player with that kind of ceiling is an immense change of fortune<\/a>. Predictably, Edgecombe has tailed off. He is shooting 35% overall and 32% from 3-point range in November after his blistering first five games, a nod to teams scheming for him and the acclimation process to the rigors of an 82-game season. (He&#8217;s also the latest notable player around the league to deal with a calf strain.) But what&#8217;s undeniable is the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/philadelphia-76ers\/20\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:76ers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">76ers<\/a> seem to have found a keeper in Edgecombe.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/47110960\/nba-intel-hearing-maxey-edgecombe-embiid-george-76ers-future\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:ESPN;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">ESPN<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Given last season&#8217;s disaster &#8212; even as late as January, team sources were insisting they didn&#8217;t see a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[22388,49,48,19739,459,1518,139449,82,139450],"class_list":["post-312708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-76ers","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edgecombe","tag-nba","tag-philadelphia","tag-realistic-path","tag-sports","tag-team-sources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}