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The Chicago Bulls have chosen the Chicago native with the No. 11 decide within the 2024 NBA draft. He turns into the most recent addition to a Bulls group that has simply acquired Josh Giddey and will see quite a lot of roster turnover this offseason.
Buzelis grew up in Hinsdale, Il, a suburb southwest of Chicago. He shared a message together with his future fanbase shortly after being chosen.
Matas Buzelis @tasbuzelis
Chicago, I am residence❤️ Let’s work #Bulls
Followers took to social media to reward Chicago for taking the native participant and projected a brilliant future for him in a Bulls uniform.
Julia Poe @byjuliapoe
The Chicago Bulls choose Matas Buzelis with the No. 11 decide within the draft.
A 19 y/o, 6-foot-10 energy ahead who averaged 14.3 factors and 6.9 rebounds for G-League Ignite final 12 months.
Buzelis is a Chicago native who performed one 12 months of highschool ball at Hinsdale Central.
He spent the 2023-24 season with the G-League Ignite, averaging 11.8 factors, 5 rebounds and 1.7 assists in 9 video games. He fell barely, as he was projected because the No. 8 decide by Bleacher Report’s Jonathan Wasserman in his ultimate mock draft.
He joins a Bulls group that went 39-43 in 2023-24 and fell within the play-in event. This was the second consecutive season that the Bulls missed out on the postseason, and it has not reached the second spherical of the playoffs because the 2014-15 season.
The primary transfer of the offseason was buying Giddey, who Chicago obtained from the Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder for Alex Caruso June 20. The Bulls will now look in direction of a possible commerce for Zach LaVine, who has been concerned in commerce rumors since final offseason.