- John Celestand
John Celestand (born
March 6 ,1977 inHouston, Texas ) is an American former professionalbasketball player.Celestand was selected by the
Los Angeles Lakers with the No. 30 overall pick of the1999 NBA Draft , as a 6'4"shooting guard out ofVillanova University . He was a member of the Lakers' 1999-2000 championship team, and has spent the past several years playing professionally inItaly (with Skipper Bologna for two month in late 2001),France andGermany .Celestand is currently living in
New Jersey working as a personal basketball trainer and as a regular contributor to a basketball website, Hoopville.com.Celestand is a regular contributor to Dime Magazine and works as an announcer for HSSTV covering high school basketball games in New York City. He also works for ESPN Regional covering Big East college basketball games. John is a recurring guest on WCTC 1450 a sports talk radio station in Central New Jersey and coaches the Central Jersey Jammers AAU team based in New Brunswick, New Jersey. John is a member of the "I Can Foundation" a non-profit organization created in 2005 to encourage the importance of literacy among inner city youth and also works as a motivational speaker throughout New Jersey.
Celestand attended
Piscataway Township High School inPiscataway Township, New Jersey . [Gottlieb, Tom. [http://media.www.dailytargum.com/media/storage/paper168/news/2003/10/17/GamedayHomecomingIssue/High-School.State.Champions.Bring.Ru.Neighborhood.Flavor-531508.shtml "High school state champions bring RU neighborhood flavor"] , "Daily Targum ",October 17 ,2003 . AccessedMay 7 ,2007 .]References
External links
* [http://www.nba.com/playerfile/john_celestand/?nav=page John Celestand profile @ nba.com]
* [http://thedraftreview.com/history/drafted1999/Celestand-John.htm John Celestand - Draft Review]
*basketball-reference|id=c/celesjo01|name=John Celestand
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