{"id":606354,"date":"2026-02-16T14:20:03","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T14:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/606354\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T14:20:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T14:20:03","slug":"utah-jazz-rookie-ace-bailey-added-to-nba-rising-stars-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/606354\/","title":{"rendered":"Utah Jazz rookie Ace Bailey added to NBA Rising Stars Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014 Better late than never, but the Utah Jazz will finally be represented at this weekend&#8217;s NBA All-Star festivities after rookie Ace Bailey was selected as a replacement player for the Rising Stars Game.<\/p>\n<p>The fifth overall pick out of Rutgers in the 2025 NBA Draft, Bailey has averaged 11.6 points and 3.8 rebounds in his first season with the Jazz.<\/p>\n<p>Bailey will play for Team Melo in Friday night&#8217;s game at Intuit Dome in Los Angeles, which will showcase the NBA&#8217;s young stars.<\/p>\n<p>Before Bailey&#8217;s selection as a replacement, no other Jazz player had been scheduled to participate in this year&#8217;s All-Star Weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES \u2014 Better late than never, but the Utah Jazz will finally be represented at this weekend&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3785],"tags":[7,423,6,4315,422,427,3972],"class_list":{"0":"post-606354","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-utah-jazz","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-jazz","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-salt-lake-city","12":"tag-utah","13":"tag-utah-jazz","14":"tag-utahjazz"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606354","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=606354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}