The 2026-27 season is right around the corner, and now is the time for final preparation around the league as teams and players get ready for another grind of an 82-game season. The season is filled with a lot of promise and hope for a lot of teams as everybody prepares for a run at the Larry O'Brien trophy.
The Philadelphia 76ers have certainly geared up for a run at the title after adding LeBron James and Jaylen Brown to a roster that already featured great talent in Joel Embiid, Tyrese Maxey, and VJ Edgecombe. Philadelphia finished 45-37 in the 2025-26 season and was able to win a Round 1 series over the rival Boston Celtics after trailing 3-1.
HoopsHype ranked the top 100 players ahead of the new season and Edgecombe comes in ranked No. 43
on the list:
Edgecombe surely has spent and will continue to spend a lot of the offseason working on his outside jumper, as he’s going to get a ton of wide-open spot-up looks with the new-look Sixers, an area where he was respectable, especially for a rookie, in 2025-26. Edgecombe was in the NBA’s 67th percentile as a spot-up shooter last season, producing 1.10 points per possession on the play type.
Besides that, Edgecombe’s 2026-27 will be fun to watch; his explosiveness as a slasher and finisher around the basket as a first-year player was astounding, and we only expect it to get better next season. Edgecombe is also a good rebounder and playmaker for his position, and a disruptive defender, averaging nearly a steal-and-a-half per contest as a rookie.
Edgecombe averaged 16.0 points, 5.6 rebounds, and 4.2 assists in the 2025-26 season as a rookie. The goal now is for him to build off that and be a positive contributor on a team that will feature so much talent and Hall of Famers.
This article originally appeared on Sixers Wire: Sixers guard VJ Edgecombe ranked No. 43 player heading into 2027
