We are now officially two weeks away from the start of the NBA draft, and that has ramped up the conversation of what is going to happen.

Ramp up. I thought we banned that term. You used it yesterday. You started off the show yesterday.

I'm pretty sure. Okay. All right. So we're on the ramp again, boys. Things are starting to escalate

when it comes to the NBA draft and the conversation that's out there. And we have the

latest and the greatest from the big boards to the mock drafts to some intel right before

we started the show. Welcome to the PHLY Sixers podcast on a Wednesday. Again, 14 days away

from the first round of the NBA draft where the 76ers hold the third overall pick

alongside Derek Bodner, Kyle Newbeck. I'm Devon Givens Bree, our president of basketball

ops. She's here, all of you in the chat, and we have to get to it right away because Kyle

right before, a little bit before, about 30 minutes before we started the show here, some

information from Friends of the Show again jake fisher and mark stein from the mark stein substack and jake had written some things about who came in for a workout for the philadelphia 76ers and uh surprise no but surprise yes because because we haven't heard anything things have been pretty

tight-lipped yes so we've talked a lot about Philadelphia's ability to keep things suppressed this

time of year so I think this qual what I'm about to read to you qualifies as I think the most

intel we've gotten by a long shot on what's going on for the Sixers.

So this is per Jake Fisher.

Quote, the prime candidate at number three at this juncture appears to be Baylor freshman guard, VJ Edgecombe,

whose sources say visited with the Sixers last week.

There's an expectation.

Philadelphia will bring in Rutgers is Ace Bailey down the road.

But Jake has not heard of a workout Bailey has scheduled to date.

Now here is the critical part as far as I think we're all concerned.

Edgecombe said to have impressed with his work ethic personality and interviews.

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