{"id":605881,"date":"2026-02-16T07:03:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T07:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/605881\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T07:03:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T07:03:29","slug":"matas-buzelis-makes-all-star-declaration-ahead-of-trip-to-rising-stars-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/605881\/","title":{"rendered":"Matas Buzelis makes All-Star declaration ahead of trip to Rising Stars Game"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cEven though the Chicago Bulls<\/a> look different following many trades<\/a>, Matas Buzelis<\/a> is still around. Recently, Buzelis was selected to play<\/a> in the NBA Rising Stars Game during the NBA All-Star Weekend.<\/p>\n

However, Buzelis is very much wanting to do more going forward. He said that he wants his shot<\/a> at playing in the All-Star Game, per Joe Cowely of the Chicago Sun-Times.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything is exciting for me still,\u201d Buzelis said of his trip to Los Angeles for All-Star Weekend. \u201cAnything you get to participate in is an honor and exciting, but I\u2019m not going to lie, yeah, I want to be in that Sunday game for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n

Altogether, Buzelis stressed that he has the capability.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m fully capable of becoming a great player and this is just the process it is going to be for me,\u201d he said. \u201cBut I know for a fact that every year I\u2019m going to get better as a player. I know that will happen.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m going to work extremely hard, push myself until exhaustion to become that player.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, Buzelis stressed that the team comes first.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m more worried about this team and as a collective group what can we achieve,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m all up for the challenge of becoming whatever people say or believe \u2014 All-Star, yada, yada.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Buzelis is averaging 15.2 points and 5.4 rebounds per game. The Bulls are in the midst of a six-game losing streak following their 124-105 loss to the Boston Celtics on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

At the same time, Buzelis is still adjusting to an entirely new roster<\/a> following the departure of his core teammates. That includes Coby White, Ayo Dosunmu, Nikola Vucevic, Dalen Terry, Jevon Carter, and Kevin Huerter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cEven though the Chicago Bulls look different following many trades, Matas Buzelis is still around. Recently, Buzelis was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3771],"tags":[7,920,919,329,3824,973,6,7218],"class_list":{"0":"post-605881","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-bulls","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-bulls","10":"tag-chicago","11":"tag-chicago-bulls","12":"tag-chicagobulls","13":"tag-matas-buzelis","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-nba-all-star-game"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116079035053141381","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}