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.
Manhattan Deputy District Attorney Mirah Curzer said the office was dismissing the second-degree assault charge against Porter, 23, due to “insufficient evidence” after it was revealed that the NBA player in He didn’t actually break his girlfriend Kysre Gondrezick’s neck.
“What initially appeared to be a fractured vertebra was not actually an injury caused by the defendant,” Curzer told Judge Jay Weiner during Porter’s hearing in Manhattan Criminal Court.
Prosecutors initially said the savage beating at the Midtown hotel on Sept. 11 left Gondrezick, a former WNBA player, with a fractured vertebra.
But documents reviewed by The Post showed that the fracture was actually a congenital defect and did not come from the row.
Prosecutors on Monday dropped a second-degree assault charge against Rockets Kevin Porter Jr. guard Steven Hirsch.
Weiner agreed to drop the charge, but warned Porter, who was casually dressed in a white sports jacket, jeans and sneakers, to stay away from further physical altercations 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 walk away.”
The professional player, whose full name is Bryan Kevin Porter Jr., still faces charges of second-degree strangulation and third-degree assault.
He would still face a maximum sentence of seven years behind bars if convicted of the strangulation charge.
Prosecutors said they learned that the fractured vertebrae in his girlfriend Kyrse Gondrezick’s neck were not due to Porter’s alleged attack. Getty Images for Vogue The former WNBA player had a fracture in her neck that was a birth defect and not from the fight with Porter.NBAE via fake images
The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office offered a plea deal on the lower charge of third-degree assault, on the condition that Porter receive counseling, but he rejected the offer, Curzer told the judge.
Porter, who lives in Texas, has been free on $75,000 bail.
The NBA star and his girlfriend were staying at the Millennium Hilton New York at 1 UN Plaza when Porter allegedly beat her relentlessly and strangled her until she couldn’t breathe.
The judge warned Porter to avoid any physical confrontation. Steven Hirsch
Gondrezick, who used to play for Indiana Fever and Chicago Sky, fled the room and was found by a hotel employee in the hallway, prosecutors said.
The Rockets are trying to trade Porter and said he would not be with the team when training camp and the preseason begin in light of his arrest.
Porter is due back in court on Nov. 27.
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