Given last season's disaster -- even as late as January, team sources were insisting they didn'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. 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's also the latest notable player around the league to deal with a calf strain.) But what's undeniable is the 76ers seem to have found a keeper in Edgecombe.
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