Longtime NBA player Danilo Gallinari retires from basketball - ESPN

Longtime NBA forward Danilo Gallinari announced his retirement from basketball Tuesday morning.

Gallinari, 37, spent 16 years in the NBA, playing in 14 seasons — and missing two others with torn ACLs — for several teams, beginning with the New York Knicks, who selected him sixth overall in the 2008 draft.

One of 299 players, per the Elias Sports Bureau, to have played at least 14 NBA seasons, Gallinari also played for the Denver Nuggets, LA Clippers, Oklahoma City Thunder, Atlanta Hawks, Boston Celtics, Washington Wizards, Detroit Pistons and Milwaukee Bucks.

The son of Vittorio Gallinari — a teammate and roommate of longtime NBA head coach Mike D'Antoni while the two were members of Olimpia Milano in the 1970s and '80s — Gallinari is the second-highest drafted Italian player ever, behind former No. 1 overall selection Andrea Bargnani, and his 11,607 points are the most of any Italian player in NBA history.

He was best known for his time with the Knicks, where he was the fresh-faced on-court part of their rebuilding project ahead of the star-studded 2010 free agency class while D'Antoni was the head coach, and with the Nuggets, where he arrived as part of the massive trade that brought Carmelo Anthony to New York in 2011.

It was in Denver where Gallinari was part of a 57-win Nuggets team in 2012-13 that was made up of several of the players that came with him as part of that Anthony trade, and appeared ready to make a run in the Western Conference playoffs when Gallinari tore his ACL late in that regular season.

Injuries were, unfortunately, a major storyline of Gallinari's career, as he missed at least 10 games in all but one of his NBA seasons. He not only missed two entire seasons — 2013-14 and 2022-23 — to ACL tears,