Danilo Gallinari lives near the beach in a city he loves where the weather is ideal and he is paid $21.5 million to play the game of basketball.
Since agreeing to a three-year deal worth $65 million and moving to Los Angeles last year, the Clippers’ forward has walked the red carpet at the premieres of “Venom” and “It.” He once spied one of his favorite actors while out to dinner, then was stunned when the star, Omari Hardwick of “Power,” walked to his table to introduce himself.
As a child growing up in a small farming community south of Milan, Italy, where his family owned the only basketball hoop in town, Gallinari would have had difficulty predicting a life this good.