Coban Porter sentenced in fatal DUI crash days after brother's lifetime NBA ban for gambling

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Coban Porter, the younger brother of Denver Nuggets star Michael Porter and Jontay Porter, who was recently banned from the NBA, was sentenced Friday to six years in prison for killing a 42-year-old woman in a drunken driving crash last year.

Porter was a sophomore playing basketball for the University of Denver at the time of his arrest.

He was involved in a crash Jan. 22 just before 2 a.m., and an arrest affidavit said he was driving around 50 mph when he ran a red light at South University Boulevard and crashed his vehicle into Katharina Rothman’s vehicle. 

Rothman was pronounced dead at the accident site. 

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Denver Pioneers guard Coban Porter (5) drives to the basket against Paul Bruns (23) and Brian Mathews (34) of the North Dakota Fighting Hawks Feb. 3, 2022, at the Betty Engelstad Sioux Center in Grand Forks, N.D. (Jacob Kish/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

Coban Porter pleaded guilty to DUI vehicular homicide and vehicular assault. As part of his plea agreement, Porter acknowledged he was driving drunk at 2 a.m. when he ran a red light near the university and crashed into Rothman's car, killing her and seriously injuring her 47-year-old passenger, Jason Branch.

In college, Porter averaged 11.4 points as a freshman with 2.8 rebounds and a 41.9% field goal percentage in 28 games.

The sentencing came two days after Jontay was banned by the NBA after an investigation found he disclosed confidential information to sports bettors and bet on games in violation of league rules and one day before Michael's Nuggets beging the playoffs in defense of their NBA title.

The league said an