Basketball ties aside, Macklin Celebrini focused on hockey as NHL draft's presumptive No. 1 pick
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I think it's pretty good," Celebrini said, referring to his basketball ability, before acknowledging his dad, Rick, might be a better judge. "Every time I play and he watches, he says, `I'm a hockey player, playing basketball.'
At just under 6-feet and nearly 200 pounds, Celebrini isn't about to quit what is projected to be a successful and lucrative pro hockey day job in preparing for the next step in his ascension on Friday, when the first round of the NHL draft opens at The Sphere in Las Vegas.
He showed an affinity when he was very, very young," Celebrini said. "At four- or five-years-old, just the determination and love he had for...
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