John Celestand

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John Celestand (born March 6, 1977 in Houston, Texas) is an American former professional basketball player.

Celestand was selected by the Los Angeles Lakers with the No. 30 overall pick of the 1999 NBA Draft, as a 6'4" shooting guard out of Villanova University. He was a member of the Lakers' 1999-2000 championship team, and has spent the past several years playing professionally in Italy (with Skipper Bologna for two month in late 2001), France and Germany.

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 in Piscataway Township, New Jersey.^[1]

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[edit] External links

• John Celestand profile @ nba.com
• John Celestand - Draft Review
• John Celestand Statistics at Basketball-Reference.com

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