The NBA has concluded its investigation of Kevin Porter Jr.‘s domestic violence incident from September 2023, according to Law Murray of The Athletic, who reports (via Twitter) that the 25-year-old guard received a four-game suspension but won’t actually have to miss any games during the upcoming season.
As Murray tweets, Porter missed the entire 2023/24 season as a result of the incident, having been traded from Houston to Oklahoma City and subsequently cut by the Thunder in October 2023. Due to those circumstances and the information discovered in the league’s investigation, the four-game suspension will be considered already served, says Murray.
Porter was arrested in September 2023 following an altercation with his then-girlfriend, ex-WNBA player Kysre Gondrezick, and was originally charged with felony counts of assault and strangulation. He reached a plea deal in Manhattan in January 2024, agreeing to reckless assault in the third degree, a misdemeanor, as well as harassment in the second degree, which is considered a violation.
Several weeks after Porter’s arrest that September, Gondrezick disputed Manhattan prosecutors’ characterization of the incident that took place on September 11, telling Priscilla DeGregory and Emily Crane of The New York Post that Porter “never balled his fists up and hit me” and “definitely didn’t punch me in the face numerous times.”
A second-degree assault charge against Porter was dropped at that time after it was determined that Gondrezick’s vertebra fracture was a congenital defect and not caused by the former Rocket.
“It happened very fast, not to the degree of what was reported,” Gondrezick said of the altercation. “And it was an argument that occurred in the room for not even 10 seconds.”
The NBA put the Porter investigation on hold while he played in Greece during the ’23/24 campaign, but resumed it when he signed with the Clippers last July. Porter was traded to the Bucks in February and re-signed with Milwaukee on a two-year deal earlier this month.
This is kind of a joke…he should be able to serve a four game suspension. On top of that, this should be his last chance in the league.
I think its pretty disgusting the way the NBA just shakes its finger at these pieces of s***! Like I get it if your a s*** human you shouldnt be barred from ever working, but this is a public figure job where you get the luck of being one of only 450 people allowed to make millions of dollars playing a game. I think there should just be a line that after you cross your done.
The Clips are the biggest douche team signing all the douches in the league because they have a high payroll. Just cause your stuck on vet mins doesnt mean you should take the worst humans in professional basketball, so your over priced team doesnt suck. All they need for the set of the games worst people is to trade for Miles Bridges… Like seriously f*** the Clips, Primo, and KPJ.
Whats next bring in Chauncy to coach instead of Ty, since you know it fits the motif to get a guy that gang raped a woman and paid her off during his career as your coach.
Cry louder.
Defend more people that abuse women…
Don’t come here. Go out and clean up the world. ..
When you own your NBA franchise, you can make sure that none of these atrocities are ignored.
Until then…
The leagues all espouse these values, until the rubber meets the road and you can get a distressed asset for below market value, because they abuse women.
Like I wouldnt be at all shocked, if his jail sentence doesnt take him into his 40s, if a team in MLB signs Wander Franco at some point.
Either the league cares about violence against women, or unwanted exposing of yourself, or they dont. So far it looks like they dont. Maybe its just me.
Let these douche bags take the millions they already earned and forcibly retire. Your supposed to be a role model to kids if your on an NBA roster. Its like literally part of the job, and why the NBA get an exception from the Sherman act. Already make it 100$s for kids to see a game, now we want the lesson to be you can abuse women if your good at sports…
I can’t believe he is only 25.
He had some real talent. Could have had a big career. If he cared.
Dumbfounded. Not by the lack of punishment, we all knew when he played last season that he wasn’t going to be suspended. But I can’t believe the league would even put out a statement about it at this point, such a bad look. It took them two years to figure this out? They stopped investigating while he was playing in Greece? Why? They knew he was going to try to come back, he got paid every penny of that years salary as his contract was guaranteed and he was released. Unless there was some back door deal between him the league and OKC about the $. Love to see some WNBA players use their platform to call the NBA out.
He better learn life.
He was 23 or so years old. What he did was wrong, the victim of his aggression has repeatedly stated how the prosecutors embellished what had occurred. If you know anyone in the criminal justice system, you know that black defendants are overcharged, for the actual crimes committed. Go ask an attorney that represents both black and white clients.
Having been banished for a year plus, before ever having his case resolved is steeper punishment than anyone in sports for the level of his domestic violence crime.
25 year old men are 10 times smarter than they were at 23, or even 24.
The league could have kept the 4 game suspension, sure, but he’d already paid a huge price for what he’d done.