Belief

People need belief to achieve things.

In my third year of junior high, feeling hopeless, in a different place, the policy was that if I couldn't get into a good school, I wouldn't have any education.

A history teacher said, "You can get into a key high school."

A very ordinary sentence, I believed it, and worked hard.

Then, not a point more, not a point less, I got in.

Edgecombe was born in the Bimini Islands of the Bahamas, a small island with a permanent population of just over two thousand. There was no stable electricity at home; for seven years, they relied on a generator to get through each night. To save fuel, the lights went out as soon as it got dark.

His mother, Bendera, worked three jobs a day to support her five children—stocking shelves at a supermarket in the morning, working as a waitress at a restaurant at noon, and sewing clothes at night. Basketball was never just a hobby for him; it was the only way out to take his family off that desolate island.

The person who truly changed his fate was his uncle, Glassen Robbins. On an island where almost no one thought the NBA had anything to do with them, his uncle was the first to tell him, "You can make it to the NBA," funded him to attend training camps, and accompanied him on his first flight off the island. But just as he was slowly approaching his dream, his uncle suddenly passed away due to illness.

When he first arrived in the US, he was physically weak, ranked only around 150th nationally among high school players, and suffered a wrist injury, even considering giving up basketball to find a stable job. But every time he remembered his uncle's expectations and his mother's hardships, he gritted his teeth and persevered—being the first to arrive at the gym every day and the last to leave.

After transferring to Long Island Lutheran High School, he exploded onto the scene, his ranking soaring to the top three in the nation, becoming a five-star recruit. Upon entering Baylor University, he secured a million-dollar commercial deal and immediately set up a scholarship for his hometown, funding children in the same situation he was once in.

At the 2025 NBA Draft, when his name was called with the third overall pick in the first round, he lowered his head and cried, holding his mother tightly. From that small island with frequent power outages to the NBA Draft stage, it took them a full nineteen years.

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