Italian national team head coach says feeling is Danilo Gallinari suffered major knee injury

Cesare Milanti: 🇮🇹 UPDATE: By Gianmarco Pozzecco’s words, head coach of Italy, the feeling is that Danilo Gallinari tore his left cruciate ligaments. Nothing official yet. “I hope and I pray that nothing bad will come out. It was… it is an honor coaching him. I saw pain in his eyes”, he said.
Source: Twitter

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Kurt Helin @basketballtalk
Celtics’ Danilo Gallinari suffers scary knee injury playing for Italy; early reports are hopeful nba.nbcsports.com/2022/08/27/cel… – 7:01 PM Brian Robb @BrianTRobb
The very latest on the Danilo Gallinari knee injury after the Celtics forward was sidelined today while playing for Italy masslive.com/celtics/2022/0… – 6:30 PM Emiliano Carchia @Sportando
Danilo Gallinari to undergo MRI on Sunday, initial exams show ACL is stable sportando.basketball/en/danilo-gall… – 6:03 PM BasketNews @BasketNews_com
Danilo Gallinari exited the game against Georgia and did not come back.
Talking about the injury, head coach Gianmarco Pozzecco feared the worst and provided a specific example from his own past 👇
basketnews.com/news-177018-gi… – 5:58 PM BasketNews @BasketNews_com
Danilo Gallinari left the court due to what appears to be a very serious injury to his left knee.
Stay strong Danilo 🙏
#FIBAWC #WinForAll pic.twitter.com/6FTS6IkCV6 – 5:28 PM Emiliano Carchia @Carchia
Italbasket NT head coach Pozzecco: Gallinari is maybe the best Italian player ever. I will pray for him. With him we could have won Eurobasket, but I am not sorry for that. I am sorry because he may not play a tournament he deserves to play” – 5:26 PM Christos Tsaltas @Tsaltas46
Sergio Llull, Tornike Shengelia, Kostas Antetokounmpo, Kostas Sloukas, Vasilije Micic and now Danilo Gallinari. All of them injured during #FIBAWC Qualifiers and less than a week for #EuroBasket. So important games just days before such a big event. Inhuman! – 5:08 PM Evan Sidery @esidery
Boston Celtics free agent signing Danilo Gallinari appears to have suffered a serious knee injury during World Cup qualifying. pic.twitter.com/AqblhaWDj6 – 5:08 PM Emiliano Carchia @Carchia
Gallinari leaves game with knee injury pic.twitter.com/fVs0wua1YM – 4:10 PM

More on this storyline

Cesare Miltane: UPDATE: As said by Italy’s team doctor, it looks like Danilo Gallinari’s left knee ligament, the one already operated, has held. Gallinari’s having an MRI tomorrow. -via Twitter / August 27, 2022 Shams Charania: Initial exams on Celtics forward Danilo Gallinari’s left knee show that the ACL is stable, full tests to come with an MRI on Sunday, sources tell @TheAthletic @Stadium. Good early news. -via Twitter @ShamsCharania / August 27, 2022 Adam Himmelsbach: Was told that Danilo Gallinari, who suffered an apparent knee injury playing in a World Cup qualifier, will undergo medical testing on Sunday to determine the extent of the injury. -via Twitter @AdamHimmelsbach / August 27, 2022