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How Justin Edwards played himself into the Sixers’ rotation in just two games

Seth Gupwell spent two years as an online journalist covering culture, lifestyle, and sports in New Zealand, and is now in his first year writing about the Sixers for Liberty Ballers.

After dropping a team-high 25 points against the Oklahoma City Thunder, the Philadelphia 76ers’ Justin Edwards would not touch the ball for his first two minutes of game time the next night against the New York Knicks. That touch was an assist to a cutting Jeff Dowtin Jr.

Off a screen from Guerschon Yabusele, he drove past his defender, got two feet into the paint, and handed the ball off once he had occupied the help defender.