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VJ Edgecombe Explains Cooper Flagg Beef

By Kyle Pagan

Published: Jul 31st, 2025 · 4:00 PM EDT

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I’ll be honest I totally forgot about the “beef” between VJ Edgecombe and Cooper Flagg. I remember seeing the original clip on social media, but I guess I never put it together that that was Edgecombe he was talking to. Anyway, VJ got with Podcast P to set the record straight on his “beef” with Flagg:

Simple misunderstanding. It’s a friendly rivalry. He stepped over Flagg on the way to the bench and that’s the reason we got the, “You not like that!” comment from Flagg. Dirty, dirty work from the cameraman there. Fantastic editing I’ll say, but dirty work.

If I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again. The content game is the Wild West. Don’t hate the player. It’s crazy because for two years people thought Flagg and Edgecombe didn’t like each other. Social media even played it up during March Madness this year when they had a shot of Flagg and VJ talking on the foul line. Turns out it wasn’t much and all they needed was for Edgecombe to sit down with Podcast P and set the record straight.

It’s gotta be exhausting to be in the public eye in 2025. Everything just constantly getting twisted and every word is scrutinized. Marshawn Lynch was ahead of his time. I wrote about Daryl Morey’s NBA Bubble comments earlier and later saw he had to clarify them when people thought he was hating on the Lakers championship. I’ll criticize Morey as much as the next guy, but even I clearly read that he never said anything about the Lakers’ title deserving an asterisk. People have zero “media literacy” I think Kinker calls it. If you’re in college and reading this, the job to get into right now is PR. Every famous person has five different PR people on retainer to clean up every single mess. Sydney Sweeney’s team is going to be working overtime for the next six months and all she did was put on some jeans and say some words that were written for her. It’s nuts. It’s clanker-proof too. Robots can’t do it either no matter what some of these PR firms think. You can spot a ChatGPT apology from a million miles away. Nothing can replace the human emotion poured out in a Notes app. From the Dalai Lama to Ja Rule and Bravolebrities ,the Notes app apology is one of one.