Rockets’ Kevin Porter Jr. arrested for domestic violence in New York, per report

Houston Rockets guard Kevin Porter Jr. was once arrested early Monday morning in New York City for allegedly assaulting his female friend, former WNBA participant Kysre Gondrezick, per ABC News. Domestic violence fees are pending towards Porter Jr., who’s being held on the NYPD’s seventeenth Precinct in Midtown.

Porter Jr. was once reportedly getting back from an evening out to a lodge the place he and Gondrezick had been staying, in keeping with ABC News. Gondrezick was once disappointed with the hour in which Porter Jr. was once returning and locked the door. After coming into the room with assist of lodge safety, the Rockets guard allegedly “beat up” Gondrezick. Further information about the location are unclear presently.

This is not Porter Jr.’s first run-in with the regulation. In August 2020 he was once accused of punching a woman and pulling her hair whilst in downtown Cleveland. In that incident the lady alleged that Porter ripped out her weave whilst in a controversy with Porter’s sister and that the Rockets guard punched her in the face. Porter was once now not charged for that incident. 

In November 2020 when he was once nonetheless a member of the Cleveland Cavaliers, he was once arrested for being in ownership of a loaded gun after you have right into a single-car coincidence. He was once later launched after posting a $4,000 bond.

After one season with the Cavaliers, Porter Jr. was once traded to the Rockets in 2021 following a locker room outburst in which he was once indignant that his locker were given to any person else. Porter reportedly started yelling and at one level threw meals, and regardless of Cavaliers normal supervisor Koby Altman stepping in to calm him down, Porter remained “combative.” After the incident he was once advised to scrub out his locker and his teammates had been advised he would now not be a member of the staff. Four days later he was once traded to Houston.

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