Matas Buzelis | Source | Athlete Ambassador at Betterguards
Matas Buzelis
Matas Buzelis is a Lithuanian-American professional basketball player for the Chicago Bulls. He was drafted 11th overall by the Chicago Bulls in the 2024 NBA draft, coming from G League Ignite. Matas is currently an athlete ambassador for Betterguards, a next-generation sports tech company, pioneering advancements in injury prevention, recovery, and athlete performance. A Chicago-area native, Buzelis played his senior high school season at Sunrise Christian Academy in Kansas. He was named the 2022-23 Gatorade Kansas Boys Basketball Player of the Year. As a junior at Brewster Academy in New Hampshire, Buzelis was selected as the 2021-22 Gatorade New Hampshire Boys Basketball Player of the Year and won the New England Prep School Athletic Council Class AAA Tournament championship.
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Betterguards (https://betterguards.com/)
Athlete Ambassador
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Matas Buzelis Celebrated by Hometown Chicago Bulls Fans During 2024 NBA Draft
The Chicago Bulls have selected the Chicago native with the No. 11 pick in the 2024 NBA draft. He becomes the latest addition to a Bulls team that has just acquired Josh Giddey and could see a lot of roster turnover this offseason.
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Basketball Prodigy Matas Buzelis Knows He's Not Normal
The teenage hooper sacrificed a typical childhood—and now college—in hopes of being a top pick in the 2024 NBA Draft. He’s not worried about it, though. This is all part of the plan.
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#thisleague UNCUT: Bulls rookie Matas Buzelis
Chris Haynes and Marc Stein get ready for the NBA's annual summer league in extremely timely fashion in this fun and lively visit with Bulls rookie Matas Buzelis. The highly rated 6-foot-10 forward tells the guys all about his draft night experience, getting selected by his hometown team, how a season with the G League Ignite prepared him for the highest level and what he hopes to achieve both in the NBA and internationally. As a bonus: Buzelis and Haynes get a history lesson from the old man Stein about the little-known magical history of the No. 14 that the Lithuanian/American forward has chosen to wear in Chicago.
Podcast
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“The BetterGuard feels like a sock and it protects you in a lot of ways. It has really helped me this past season.”
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“I was never really dealing with injuries until this past season and it was extremely tough on me, but I think it made me better as a person.”
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“Just being around NBA guys, that’s what I always wanted to be around when I was younger. So now being in the NBA, I’m not going to let down my opportunity to succeed.”
