The NBA player’s alleged attack on his girlfriend in a New York City hotel room left the woman with a fractured neck vertebra, according to prosecutors
Player ordered to stay away from WNBA’s Kysre GondrezickHouston Rockets guard Kevin Porter Jr’s alleged attack on his girlfriend in a New York City hotel room left the woman with a fractured neck vertebra and a deep cut above her right eye, prosecutors revealed at his arraignment on Tuesday.charges in connection with the incident early on Monday at the Millennium Hilton near the United Nations in Manhattan.
Porter is due back in court in Manhattan on 16 October. The Rockets are scheduled to play a preseason game that day in San Antonio, with their regular season tipping off about two weeks later.In a statement on Monday, the Rockets said: “We are in the process of gathering information surrounding the matter involving Kevin Porter Jr. We have no further comment at this time.”
Hospital testing showed that Gondrezick sustained a fracture to one of the vertebrae in her neck, the criminal complaint said. Porter has played four seasons in the NBA – a tenure marked by on-court prowess and off-court problems.