HOUSTON — The girlfriend of former Rockets player Kevin Porter Jr. is denying some of the allegations against him. This comes two days after police dropped one of the assault charges against him in the beating of his girlfriend Kysre Gondrezick, an ex-WNBA player.
Porter Jr. was arrested after being accused of attacking Gondrezick in a New York City hotel room on Sept. 11. One of the charges was dropped for insufficient evidence, the New York Post reported. He still faces a strangulation charge and another assault charge in relation to the incident and has pleaded not guilty to both.
Gondrezick posted a long statement on social media Wednesday saying the assistant district attorney in the case falsified details and Porter Jr. did not punch her five times or strangle her. Gondrezick claims investigators misrepresented her words and went by hearsay.
While she didn’t say in the post what did happen, she wrote: “I’m not condoning any behavior, but merely protecting my truth and integrity.”
Kevin Porter Jr.’s time with the Houston Rockets came to an end when the team agreed Tuesday to trade him and a pair of second-round draft picks to the Oklahoma City Thunder, a person with knowledge of the agreement told The Associated Press.
Porter Jr. — whose future in the NBA is uncertain because of the serious legal issues — will be waived immediately by the Thunder once the trade gets league approval, according to the person who spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity.
ESPN first reported the trade terms, which were later confirmed by The Houston Chronicle and other outlets. The Rockets will also receive Victor Oladipo and Jeremiah Robinson-Earl as part of the trade.
Porter is owed nearly $15.9 million for this season and an additional $1 million that was guaranteed for next season. The Rockets had already told Porter that he was essentially barred from the team after it learned of his arrest on domestic violence charges last month.
“The allegations against him are deeply troubling,” Rockets general manager Rafael Stone said earlier this month. “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.”
There is no known timetable for Oladipo’s return from a patella tendon tear suffered in last season’s playoffs with Miami.
Oklahoma City received second-round picks in 2027 and 2028 in the deal.