The question stemming from the latest allegations against Kevin Porter Jr. isn’t whether or not the Houston Rockets guard should play again in the NBA. He shouldn’t.
Not after he was arrested this week in New York City amidst allegations he savagely assaulted his girlfriend. On Tuesday at his arraignment, prosecutors said the alleged attack left Kysre Gondrezick, a free agent WNBA player, with a fractured vertebrae and cut over her right eye.
Before that, a police spokesman had told CNN that Porter Jr. “assaulted her, struck her multiple times and choked her.”
Unless these grotesque allegations are suddenly and irrefutably proven to be untrue, there’s no way Porter Jr. ever takes the floor again in an NBA game.
The question before us is how, after so many red flags and warnings, the Houston Rockets allowed him into an NBA locker room again in the first place. And, why, after this latest alleged act of violence, there would be even a remote question of anyone actually thinking of taking a chance on him again.
Throughout his career, the only thing more constant than Porter Jr.’s promise on the court was the promise of trouble off of it.
Back in college, he was suspended at USC for two games for…
