Lengthy Island coach tells The Submit how VJ Edgecombe grew from unknown gem to 76ers star

VJ Edgecombe was flying under-the-radar in the highschool basketball world. 

But it surely wouldn’t be lengthy till he grew to become a family title – by means of Lengthy Island.  

Highschool basketball had shut down in his native Bahamas. He moved to Florida, the place he was taking part in AAU, however not but highschool basketball. Then Lengthy Island Lutheran – a basketball powerhouse not simply in New York, however throughout the nation – grew to become conscious of a hidden gem. 

“We had connections throughout the nation,” John Buck, Lengthy Island Lutheran (or LuHi for brief) head of faculty and varsity basketball coach, informed The Submit. “It was type of like ‘hey, this child might be fairly good.’ But it surely was not like ‘OK, top-20, VJ Edgecomebe.’ He was not on any of these top-100 boards or something like that. So it was actually cool to see him skyrocket up and by his senior yr, develop into a top-five prospect. It was there, he simply wasn’t actually as identified.”