Rumors

Macklin Celebrini’s 2024 Upper Deck Young Guns rookie card with a Gem-Mint PSA 10 grade has jumped from $450 six months ago up to $1,675 on Tuesday, according to online card sales database Market Movers. His more rare 2024 Upper Deck Young Guns Silver Outburst PSA 10 rookie card launched even higher, starting at $839 six months ago and now up to $4,219. And none of those cards even bear Celebrini’s nickname, given to him by the Golden State Warriors’ legend: “Chester.” Rick Celebrini, Macklin’s father, has worked for the Warriors as the team’s director of sports health and performance since 2018. So Curry has known the younger Celebrini for years, which helps explain why Stephen Curry nicknamed him on the fly during an interview at the 2024 NHL Draft. Curry tagged Celebrini as “Chester” drawing from Cheetos’ famous mascot “Chester Cheetah,” because “his hands are so filthy, just like after eating a big ol’ bag of Cheetos.”

New York Times

“These are players you can build your team around,” said NHL Director of Central Scouting Dan Marr and his staff according to Predators.com. “We think Seth’s game is still going to develop, as are [Nathan] MacKinnon and [Jonathan] Drouin, but we had no reason to remove Seth from that No. 1 spot.” Jay-Z has also taken a strong interest in Seth’s future, wanting to be involved in his potential branding and marketing appeal via Roc Nation Sports (a partner of CAA Sports who also represents Popeye). Being from a mixed background but predominately seen as an African-American, Seth has the probability of being the Tiger Woods of hockey. His impact is limitless, and Jay-Z would love to strike a deal. “When Seth comes to the NHL Draft (in Newark, NJ) in June, his family, agents at CAA and Roc Nation are going to have a powwow to see if he’ll sign with them,” a source told Page 6 of the New York Post.

SLAM

You may remember Popeye from his brief stint with the Celtics, or his years as a well-traveled but serviceable rebounder, or his numerous coaching jobs around the league or his role as captain of the NBA’s all-time All-Ugly team. (Dale Ellis, Gheorghe Muresan, Jeff Hornacek and Sam Cassell round out the starting five). But I bet you didn’t know that Jones’ son is currently one of the best hockey prospects in the entire world. (I didn’t either, until I read about it this morning on Ben Rohrbach’s tumblr.) Seth Jones is a projected top-three pick in next year’s NHL Entry Draft and the 17-year-old is USA Hockey’s top rated underage prospect. He’s also the son of a well-traveled NBA player and coach.

 “I guess when you sit back and think about it, it is odd for a professional basketball player’s son to play hockey at such a high level,” Popeye Jones said in a phone interview with CSNWashington.com.

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