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Danilo Gallinari isn't sure where he'll end up on Thursday night, but he's pretty sure that he'll be taken in the Lottery. When asked on Wednesday if he would play for whatever NBA team selects him - instead of bolting back to Italy if he doesn't like the destination - Gallinari put doubts to rest while expressing confidence in his draft stock. "I will stay in the NBA for any team," Gallinari said. How about if he happens to fall to, say, the 20th pick? "Yeah, I will stay, but I don't think I will go to twenty," he revealed. "I don't know where I will go, but not twenty." Not at all phased by the American culture, Danilo used impressive English to compare the United States to his homeland of Italy. "Things are completely different. It's like Milan and New York. In Milan the biggest building is like the smallest one here [referring to New York]," Gallinari mused. "In Italy there's one journalist, while here there is ten," he added. He has spoken with fellow Italian Andrea Bargnani on occasion, but the topic is rarely the NBA. "We haven't talked much about the game, but he doesn't think I will have problems bringing my game here. We are in touch with each other, but we talk more about other stuff," Danilo admitted. He seems a little less sure of himself than Bargnani. "I know what I can do in Europe, but I don't know what I can do here yet. I hope to bring my game to America," he beamed. Not surprisingly, Gallinari often kept tabs on the NBA game while playing at home in Europe. "I like Rip Hamilton and Tayshaun Prince. Paul Pierce is a player I like as well," Danilo said. A certain Most Valuable Player, though, takes the cake. "My favorite player in Kobe Bryant," he added. |