Matas Buzelis

About

Matas Arvidas Buzelis (born October 13, 2004) is a Lithuanian American professional basketball player for the Chicago Bulls of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was selected 11th overall by the Bulls in the 2024 NBA draft.

Buzelis was born in Chicago on October 13, 2004. Both of his parents played basketball professionally in Lithuania before immigrating to the United States and settling in the Chicago area, where Buzelis was born and raised. During his childhood, Buzelis attended gymnastics school with his brother and sister. Later in the same school, he attended swimming and had the best results among under-10 and under-12 breaststroke swimmers in the state of Illinois.
Buzelis initially attended Hinsdale Central High School in suburban Hinsdale and played on their sophomore team as a freshman. He transferred to Brewster Academy, a boarding school in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, midway through the start of the first semester of his sophomore year after Hinsdale Central’s basketball season was postponed due to concerns related to the COVID-19 pandemic. As a junior, Buzelis was named the 2022 New Hampshire Gatorade Player of the Year…