He hoped to return for the World Cup, but Danilo Gallinari will ultimately not participate in the summer competition. The new Washington player has not recovered sufficiently from his torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee, contracted during the preparation for EuroBasket 2022.
Danilo Gallinari’s name does not appear in the expanded list of 16 players announced by Gianmarco Pozzecco. Good news for Italy though, Simone Fontecchio, who is coming out of his first season in the league at Utah and was very good last summer, will join the group on July 28th.
Among the players known to the NBA world, we also find Nico Mannion, seen at Golden State in 2020/2021, or Nicolo Melli, passed by the Pelicans and the Mavericks between 2019 and 2021.
Here is the extended Italian list: Marco Spissu, Nico Mannion, Stefano Tonut, Nicolo Melli, Simone Fontecchio, Giampaolo Ricci, Matteo Spagnolo, Guglielmo Caruso, Achille Polonara, Mouhamet Diouf, Riccardo Visconti, Luca Severini, Gabriele Procida, Tomas Woldetensae, Alessandro Pajola and Luigi Datome.
Italy will play in Group A with Angola, the Dominican Republic (with possibly Karl-Anthony Towns) and the Philippines.
