{"id":459078,"date":"2023-09-14T13:01:47","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T09:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=459078"},"modified":"2023-09-14T12:21:32","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T08:21:32","slug":"rockets-looking-to-trade-kevin-porter-jr-amid-felony-allegations","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/rockets-looking-to-trade-kevin-porter-jr-amid-felony-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockets looking to trade Kevin Porter Jr. amid felony allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Houston Rockets are planning to trade guard Kevin Porter Jr. after he is being charged of felony assault and strangulation due to an alleged attack on his girlfriend, The Athletic reports.<\/p>\n<p>Rockets have contacted multiple teams offering draft compensation, who has a the 2023-24 season slated for $15.9 million, but the team wants to keep all options open with the future of Porter, a league source said.<\/p>\n<p>The NBA launched an investigation into Porter following an alleged incident Monday at a New York City hotel where his girlfriend suffered a fractured neck vertebra and a cut above her right eye.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Houston Rockets are in the process of trading guard Kevin Porter Jr. following his felony assault and strangulation charges stemming from an alleged attack on his girlfriend. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3rDN4KWg1V\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/3rDN4KWg1V<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MARCA in English (@MARCAinENGLISH) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MARCAinENGLISH\/status\/1702132481464455286?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 14, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The guard is not expected to attend Rockets\u2019 training camp in early October, league sources say. \u201cThe allegations here are horrific,\u201d NBA commissioner Adam Silver said Wednesday. \u201cNo question about it. But I don\u2019t know anything more about the actual facts other than those allegations. We\u2019re still now in the process of gathering information.\u201d, he adds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Houston Rockets are planning to trade guard Kevin Porter Jr. after he is being charged of felony assault and strangulation due to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":459086,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17044,21349],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[18346,21350],"acf":{"announce":"The NBA are still gathering information on the incident in New York","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/459078"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/459078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":459099,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/459078\/revisions\/459099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459078"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=459078"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=459078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}