Houston Rockets guard Kevin Porter Jr. did not break his girlfriend’s neck during an alleged fight at their hotel, Manhattan prosecutors admitted in court Monday – as they said they would drop one of the assault charges against him.
Assistant Manhattan District Attorney Mirah Curzer said the office dropped the second-degree assault charge against Porter, 23, because of “insufficient evidence,” after it was revealed that the NBA player did not actually break girlfriend Kysre Gondrezick’s neck.
“What at first appeared to be a broken spine was actually not an injury caused by the defendant,” Curzer told Judge Jay Weiner during Porter’s trial in Manhattan Criminal Court.
Prosecutors initially said the violent Midtown hotel destruction on Sept. 11 left Gondrezick — a former WNBA player — with a broken spine.
But documents reviewed by The Post show the fracture was actually a congenital defect and did not come from a line.
Prosecutors today dropped second-degree assault charges against Rockets guard Kevin Porter Jr. Steven Hirsch
Weiner agreed to drop the charges, but warned Porter — who was dressed casually in a white track jacket, jeans and sneakers — to avoid any physical altercation with Gondrezick, 26.
“I don’t know what your relationship is with the complainant,” the judge said. “But if things get heated, you have to be the one to go.”
Professional football player – whose full name is Bryan Kevin Porter Jr. – still faces charges of second-degree strangulation and third-degree assault.
He still faces a maximum sentence of seven years in prison, if convicted on the strangulation charge.
Prosecutors said they learned that the broken vertebrae in Kyrse Gondrezick’s neck were not from Porter’s attack. Getty Images for Vogue The former WNBA player suffered a broken bone in her neck that was a birth defect and not from the fight with Porter.NBAE via Getty Images
The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office offered a plea deal on a lesser charge of third-degree assault — on the condition that Porter undergo counseling — but he declined the offer, Curzer told the judge.
Porter, who lives in Texas, was released on $75,000 bail.
The NBA star and his girlfriend had been staying at New York’s Millennium Hilton at 1 UN Plaza when Porter allegedly repeatedly beat her and choked her until she couldn’t breathe.
Porter was warned by the judge to avoid any physical confrontation.Steven Hirsch
Gondrezick – who had played for the Indiana Fever and Chicago Sky – fled the room and was found by hotel workers in the hallway, prosecutors said.
The Rockets tried to trade Porter and said he would not be with the team as they begin training camp and the preseason following his suspension.
Porter is due back in court on Nov. 27.
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