Kevin Porter Jr., who was arrested after an alleged attack on WNBA player Kysre Gondrezick, has been told to stay away from the Rockets, the team said.
HOUSTON — The Houston Rockets have told Kevin Porter Jr. that he cannot be with the team in any capacity in the wake of his domestic violence arrest last month.
Porter was arrested after an alleged attack on girlfriend Kysre Gondrezick, a former WNBA player, in a New York City hotel room Sept. 11. Prosecutors said the attack left her with a fractured neck vertebra and a deep cut above her right eye.
Porter, 23, has pleaded not guilty to felony assault and strangulation and is due back in court in Manhattan on Oct. 16.
«The allegations against him are deeply troubling,» Rockets general manager Rafael Stone said at the team’s media day Monday. «Going back a few weeks, as soon as I heard the allegations, I informed his representatives that he could not be part of the Houston Rockets. They understood, and he has not been with the team or around the team or had any interaction with the team since that time and will not be at media day today or in training camp.
