Danilo Gallinari signed a two-year deal, worth $13.3 million with the Celtics in 2022. In early September of that year, Gallinari tore his left ACL. The forward never saw court time in Boston after he became a footnote in the trade that sent Marcus Smart to Memphis and Kristaps Porzingis to the Celtics.
Gallinari, a fourteen-year veteran, expressed some sense of revenge on his recent podcast, A Cresta Alta. When asked about the Celtics, he responded, “as soon as the schedule comes out, I will put an X for every time I will play against Boston.