{"id":25332,"date":"2025-07-21T04:57:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T04:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/25332\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T04:57:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T04:57:12","slug":"nc-state-legend-dj-burns-is-back-in-the-basketball-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/25332\/","title":{"rendered":"NC State legend DJ Burns is back in the basketball spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DJ Burns is a March Madness legend.<\/p>\n<p>The hero of North Carolina State&#8217;s NCAA Tournament run in 2024 captured the nation&#8217;s hearts thanks to his crafty left-handed game contained in a big fella&#8217;s body.<\/p>\n<p>Now, he&#8217;s back in the basketball spotlight.<\/p>\n<p>Burns is playing in The Basketball Tournament, the exciting single-elimination event featuring non-NBA pros each summer.<\/p>\n<p>In TBT, Burns is a member of Team Challenge ALS, which won its first game and is playing Sunday night in the Round of 32.<\/p>\n<p>Burns is the most recognizable name on a roster that also includes former Wolfpack star DJ Horne and former Boston College star and Golden State Warriors guard Ky Bowman.<\/p>\n<p>After his NC State run, Burns went undrafted in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>He spent the 2024-25 season in South Korea with Sono SG. He averaged 9.3 points and 3.6 rebounds per game.<\/p>\n<p>Now, he&#8217;s back on the court stateside trying to make another deep tournament run.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/ncaa-basketball\/news\/syracuse-orange-basketball-legend-buddy-boeheim-tbt-debut-boeheims-army\/7cd0e677eeab31bb3f1dd623\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Syracuse&#8217;s Buddy Boeheim starred in his TBT debut<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DJ Burns is a March Madness legend. The hero of North Carolina State&#8217;s NCAA Tournament run in 2024&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[402,398,400,401,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-25332","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-basketball","11":"tag-ncaabasketball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}