Celtics forward Danilo Gallinari knew he was in trouble right away.
Playing for the Italian national team this summer, Gallinari suffered a non-contact injury. Initially, team trainers diagnosed it as a torn meniscus, but Gallinari wasn’t convinced. Sure enough, his injury was soon amended: He had torn his ACL for a second time after first suffering the injury in 2012-13.
“The way that I got injured was very similar to the way I got injured the first time I did my ACL,” Gallinari told reporters on Tuesday. “So yeah, my feelings were that something big [was] happening in my knee.