Houston Rockets guard-forward Kevin Porter Jr. was arrested Monday in New York on charges of assault and strangulation related to an alleged domestic violence incident.
The 23-year-old guard is accused of hitting his girlfriend multiple times and putting his hands around her neck, police said . She was said to have been taken to a hospital with a laceration to her face, following an altercation that occurred at a hotel in midtown Manhattan.The Rockets and the NBA said in separate statements that they were in the process of gathering information about the alleged incident.
Porter is entering his fourth season with the Rockets following a 2021 trade from the Cleveland Cavaliers, with whom he spent his first NBA season after he was selected 30th in the 2019 draft. In October, he agreed to a reported four-year extension with Houston that had only the first year guaranteed, at a salary of approximately $16 million.
In November 2020, when Porter was involved in a single-car crash while with the Cavaliers, police arrested him on handgun, vehicular and marijuana charges, which were later
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