Sixers VJ Edgecombe selected for NBA's All-Rookie first-team

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PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Philadelphia 76ers VJ Edgecombe has been named to the NBA's All-Rookie first-team.

The first-round pick averaged 16 points, 5.6 rebounds and 4.2 steals in his inaugural campaign.

Also making first-team All-Rookie: Dallas' Cooper Flagg, Charlotte's Kon Knueppel; San Antonio's Dylan Harper; and Memphis' Cedric Coward. Harper also appeared on all 100 ballots, with 93 first-team nods and seven second-team votes.

Edgecombe is the first Sixer to earn first-team All-Rookie honors since Ben Simmons in 2018.

Philadelphia 76ers' Vj Edgecombe goes up for a dunk past New York Knicks' Jalen Brunson during the first half of Game 3 in a second-round NBA basketball playoff series

(AP Photo/Matt Slocum)



Those five players were also the only ones to get votes in the Rookie of the Year balloting, where Flagg edged Knueppel for top honors.



The All-Rookie second team included New Orleans' Jeremiah Fears and Derik Queen, Utah's Ace Bailey, Sacramento's Maxime Reynaud and Toronto's Collin Murray-Boyles.

The NBA will announce the All-Defensive team on Friday and the All-NBA team on Sunday, with Coach of the Year set to be announced Tuesday.

The Associated Press contributed to this post.
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