{"id":320986,"date":"2025-12-02T17:49:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T17:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/320986\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T17:49:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T17:49:10","slug":"danilo-gallinari-retires-from-basketball-after-20-professional-seasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/320986\/","title":{"rendered":"Danilo Gallinari retires from basketball after 20 professional seasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Danilo Gallinari is calling it a career.<\/p>\n<p>The forward <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/gallinari8888\/status\/1995886881989620080\" rel=\"nofollow\">announced<\/a> his retirement from basketball after 20 professional seasons on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Gallinari spent 16 years in the NBA, playing for nine franchises. He began his career with the New York Knicks, who drafted him sixth overall in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>The Italian also played for the Denver Nuggets, Los Angeles Clippers, Oklahoma City Thunder, Atlanta Hawks, Boston Celtics, Washington Wizards, Detroit Pistons and Milwaukee Bucks.<\/p>\n<p>He was last with the Bucks to close out the 2023-24 season.<\/p>\n<p>Gallinari averaged 14.9 points, 4.7 rebounds and 1.9 assists in 777 career games. His best season came in 2018-19 with the Clippers, where he averaged 19.8 points per game in 68 contests.<\/p>\n<p>The 37-year-old closed his career by winning the Puerto Rican league title and the championship series MVP award with Vaqueros de Bayamon this past summer. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Danilo Gallinari is calling it a career. The forward announced his retirement from basketball after 20 professional seasons&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-320986","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}