{"id":8315,"date":"2023-09-12T13:53:03","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T13:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/12\/houston-rockets-guard-kevin-porter-jr-arrested-in-new-york-on-assault-charges\/"},"modified":"2023-09-12T13:53:03","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T13:53:03","slug":"houston-rockets-guard-kevin-porter-jr-arrested-in-new-york-on-assault-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/12\/houston-rockets-guard-kevin-porter-jr-arrested-in-new-york-on-assault-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Rockets guard Kevin Porter Jr. arrested in New York on assault charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Houston Rockets guard Kevin Porter Jr. was arrested Monday on suspicion of assaulting a 26-year-old woman in New York, according to the New York City Police Department.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Porter, 23, was taken into custody on the scene and the woman was taken to a hospital, according to the spokesperson. He was held on preliminary charges of second-degree assault and strangulation, NYPD said.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Neither Porter\u2019s representative nor the Rockets have responded to requests for comment.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Porter was selected in the first round of the 2019 NBA Draft out of University of Southern California by the Milwaukee Bucks. He would later end up with the Cleveland Cavaliers after being traded twice.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Porter has played four seasons in the league \u2013 one with the Cavaliers and the past three with the Rockets. Last season he averaged 19.2 points per game.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The Rockets announced in October that the team had signed Porter to a multiyear contract extension reportedly worth over $80 million.  <\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Houston Rockets guard Kevin Porter Jr. was arrested Monday on suspicion of assaulting a 26-year-old woman in New York, according to the New York City Police Department. Porter, 23, was taken into custody on the scene and the woman was taken to a hospital, according to the spokesperson. He was held on preliminary charges of <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8316,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8315","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}