Nuggets' Danilo Gallinari might return sooner than expected from knee surgery
Posted: 06/14/2013 05:41:31 PM MDT
Updated: 06/14/2013 06:34:44 PM MDT
By Benjamin Hochman
The Denver Post
Nuggets forward Danilo Gallinari is helped off the court after injuring his knee in a game April 4 against the Dallas Mavericks at the Pepsi Center. (John Leyba, Denver Post file)
Nuggets forward Danilo Gallinari could return by December as opposed to February, a league source told The Denver Post.
Gallinari, who underwent knee surgery at the end of the season, had been projected by the Nuggets to miss half of the 2013-14 season. But Gallo posted a video on his official Facebook page Friday in Italian, and in the video Gallo said his left ACL wasn't torn and his recovery time will be "completely different" than previously reported, according to the Italian journalist Davide Chinellato. He is a writer for Italian La Gazzetta dello Sport and translated Gallo's video and posted the quotes on Twitter).
Chinellato tweeted that Gallo called it "great news." Here are more tweets from him:
@dchinellato: #Nuggets Gallinari: "I underwent a healing response procedure, in which ligament is stimulated to respond naturally"
@dchinellato: #Nuggets Gallinari: "This procedure changes completely my rehab and recovery time. But I'll inform you later about that"
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