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NEW YORK (AP) -The Knicks signed first-round draft pick Danilo Gallinari on Tuesday and expect to have him ready to play in summer league games next week in Las Vegas.

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GREENBURGH, N.Y. (AP) -The New York Knicks made Danilo Gallinari the first major addition to what they hope is a new, successful era with Donnie Walsh and Mike D’Antoni as braintrust, taking the Italian teenager with the sixth pick in the NBA draft Thursday night.

“I’d be more worried if they’re booing him next year,” D’Antoni said. “But I don’t think that’ll happen.”

Gallinari was the third Italian player drafted by an NBA team in three years. The Toronto Raptor