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Boston Herald
Boston Herald
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Steve Hewitt

Celtics’ Danilo Gallinari hopes to return ‘stronger and better again’ after second career ACL tear

Danilo Gallinari didn’t want to be right. But he knew he was. He felt it.

After Gallinari went down with a left knee injury in late August while playing for Italy in a FIBA World Cup qualifier, Italian team doctors announced he had suffered a torn meniscus. But the new Celtics forward wasn’t convinced. Gallinari, who suffered a torn ACL in the same knee in 2013, was all too familiar with what he was feeling.

“I knew from experience that something was wrong right away,” Gallinari said Tuesday. “The way that I got injured was very similar to the way I got injured the first time I did my ACL. So yeah, my feelings were that something big (was) happening in my knee.

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