The Houston Rockets are trading their guard, Kevin Porter, and two future second-round picks to the Oklahoma Thunders for Victor Oladipo and Jeremiah Robinson-Earl.
With this deal, the Thunders would pay the $16.9 million of guaranteed salary left on Porter’s new four-year contract and the Rockets would be keeping $5.5 million in salary.
Porter was arrested for an alleged attack on girlfriend Kysre Gondrezick, a former WNBA player, at the Millennium Hilton near the United Nations on Sept. 11 in New York.
But prosecutors later dropped the charges since the attack left her with a fractured neck vertebra and a deep cut above her right eye, and he did not fracture her neck.
“What initially appeared to be a fractured vertebrae was not an injury caused by the defendant,” Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Mirah Curzer told Judge Jay Weiner on Monday.
His future still hangs in the balance as he still faces charges of second-degree strangulation and third-degree assault, to which he has pleaded not guilty.
Porter signed a four-year contract extension worth as much as $82.5 million last season, but he has been controversial when he is not on the pitch.
He was the No. 30 pick in the 2019 draft after spending one season at USC, where he was suspended because of conduct issues.
He was traded to the Rockets for a top-55 protected second-round pick in January 2021.
Oklahoma City signed Oladipo in an offseason trade with the Miami Heat that brought them two future second-round picks.
Robinson-Earl has a $1.9 million guarantee for this season and a $2 million team option for next year.
