{"id":1935595,"date":"2026-09-29T09:02:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T13:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1935595"},"modified":"2026-09-29T09:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T13:32:10","slug":"tar-heels-in-nba-no-blending-in-for-wilson-white-ready-to-lead-in-charlotte-sharpe-starter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1935595","title":{"rendered":"Tar Heels in NBA: No \u2018blending in\u2019 for Wilson; White ready to lead in Charlotte: Sharpe starter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Caleb Wilson spent the Chicago Bulls\u2019 media day making it clear he doesn\u2019t plan to ease into his rookie season. Asked about his approach entering a Bulls locker room that includes 23-year-old forward Matas Buzelis and veteran point guard Josh Giddey, Wilson didn\u2019t hedge. \u201cIn my opinion, there\u2019s no leadership while blending in, so I\u2019m definitely not going to try to blend in,\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tarheeltribune.com\/2026\/09\/29\/tar-heels-in-nba-no-blending-in-for-wilson-white-ready-to-lead-in-charlotte-sharpe-starter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caleb Wilson spent the Chicago Bulls\u2019 media day making it clear he doesn\u2019t plan to ease into his rookie season. Asked about his approach entering a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1935596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tarheeltribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/designer-4-e1762174344950.png?resize=1140%2C255&ssl=1","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1935595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-north-carolina-tar-heels","wpcat-80-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1935595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1935597,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935595\/revisions\/1935597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1935596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1935595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1935595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1935595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}