Report: Gallinari to Clippers in sign-and-trade involving Nuggets, Hawks

With the Denver Nuggets poised to welcome in four-time All-Star forward Paul Millsap, the club appears to be sending off one of the last remaining pieces of the trade sending Carmelo Anthony to the New York Knicks: Danilo Gallinari.

According to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, the Los Angeles Clippers will acquire the forward in a sign-and-trade deal with the Nuggets and the Atlanta Hawks.

Atlanta will reportedly receive guard Jamal Crawford, center Diamond Stone, a 2018 first-round pick, and cash, while Gallinari earns a three-year, $65 million deal from Los Angeles.

The Nuggets — who wooed Millsap to Denver with a three-year, $90 million deal ­­— will reportedly receive a 2019 second-round pick from the Hawks.

The three-way trade essentially nets Atlanta something in return for Millsap, Chris Vivlamore of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports, though technically the trade is not direct compensation for losing the unrestricted free agent.

According to Vivlamore, the Nuggets will need to complete the sign-and-trade before inking Millsap for salary-cap purposes.

Gallinari remains one of just two players directly involved in the Anthony-to-New York blockbuster still on the Nuggets roster, with Wilson Chandler being the other.

The other players Denver hauled in with the trade — Raymond Felton, Kosta Koufos, and Timofey Mozgov — were later traded by Denver.

During his six seasons in Denver, Gallinari averaged per game 31.1 minutes played, 15.3 points, 4.7 rebounds, and 2.0 assists.

Following a playoff run in 2010-’11, after being traded from New York, Gallinari and the Nuggets earned postseason berths in each of the forward’s two first full seasons in Denver, including a franchise-record 57-win season in 2012-’13.

However, in each of those seasons, Denver failed to make it out of the first round of the Western Conference playoffs and have yet to return to postseason play.

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