VJ Edgecombe wasted no time turning Jaylen Brown’s Twitch stream into a little bit of chaos.
The Philadelphia 76ers guard was on Brown’s livestream on Friday when Brown asked him to name his top five favorite hoopers of all time across high school, college, and the NBA. Edgecombe didn’t quite play along the way Brown expected. Instead, he split the answer into three separate lists and worked his way through each level with a straight face and a couple of jokes aimed right at his teammate.
In high school, Edgecombe started with Collin Sexton, Sharife Cooper, and Jalen Green, then added Anthony Edwards and Cade Cunningham to finish the group.
Those five names all make sense. Sexton, Cooper, Green, Edwards, and Cunningham were McDonald’s All-Americans, and while Edwards and Cunningham have gone on to become NBA stars, all five were standout high school players.
The college portion was where Edgecombe really started having fun with it.
“Aight college, Buddy Hield, Ben Simmons,” Edgecombe said. “Who else we got?
Paolo [Banchero], Zion [Williamson]. That’s four.
I feel like I’m missing somebody. Definitely not JB, chat.”
That was the shot at Brown. He played at California, where he won Pac-12 Freshman of the Year in 2016 and made First Team All-Pac-12, but Edgecombe clearly wasn’t putting him on the list right away. Brown and Edgecombe laughed it off, and Edgecombe eventually circled back and added Cam Reddish as his fifth college pick.
Then came the NBA list, where the big names started rolling in. Edgecombe named Stephen Curry and his new teammate LeBron James, then kept going with Damian Lillard and Dwyane Wade.
“League all-time, Bron, Curry, [Damian Lillard], [Dwyane Wade]… JB,” Edgecombe said.
Brown thought he had finally made the cut.
“Man, get your a** outta here,” Brown replied. “But W glaze, chat.”
That’s when Edgecombe flipped it on him.
“Sike, nah n***a Kyrie [Irving],” Edgecombe said.
Brown took the troll in stride, but it was another reminder that Edgecombe can keep up with the moment just as well as he can keep up on the floor.
James, Curry, Lillard, Wade, and Irving are all the kind of players people love to watch, and Edgecombe has often been compared to Wade. Wade has even seen similarities between the two, which is about as strong a compliment as a young guard can get.
Edgecombe’s rookie season gave the 76ers plenty to like. After Philadelphia took him with the No. 3 pick in the 2025 NBA Draft, he averaged 16.0 points, 5.6 rebounds, 4.2 assists, 1.4 steals, and 0.5 blocks per game. He finished fourth in Rookie of the Year voting.
Brown, for his part, has already made it clear he’s a fan. After the 76ers’ 120-97 preseason win over the New York Knicks on Monday, the five-time All-Star praised Edgecombe in his press conference.
“I love VJ, already,” Brown said, via NBA on ESPN. “He’s one of my favorite people in the world, and we just met.
VJ’s going to be great. I’m excited to help him continue to thrive.
But his talent level is off the charts.”
Brown also explained why he thinks the two of them fit together so well.
“I think we kind of see the game similarly,” Brown said. “We try to get the spots that we want to get to, and now we have some similar viewpoints, so even when we talking to each other, we on the same page.”
For the 76ers, that’s the kind of chemistry you want to see this early. For Brown, it also means he’ll probably have to keep his guard up the next time Edgecombe gets handed a mic.
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