Major detail in Rockets' Kevin Porter Jr. assault case is wrong: source

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FIRST ON FOX: Houston Rockets guard Kevin Porter Jr. is accused of attacking girlfriend Kysre Gondrezick in a New York City hotel room earlier this week, but her attorney told Fox News Digital the allegations aren't accurate.

"Statements that were attributed to her were not her words," said Gondrezick's lawyer, Robert Hantman, referring to a criminal complaint. "She says he didn’t strike her repeatedly. He’s a big guy. If he hit her repeatedly, she’d have a broken jaw."

Porter, 23, was arrested Sept. 11 after staff at the Millennium Hotel in Manhattan found Gondrezick, 26, in a hallway covered in blood after she fled her room and called police, according to prosecutors.

ROCKETS KEVIN PORTER JR. ALLEGEDLY FRACTURED GIRLFRIEND'S NECK IN NEW YORK CITY HOTEL INCIDENT

Houston Rockets Kevin Porter Jr. is shown leaving Manhattan Criminal Court Sept. 11 after he was arrested for allegedly beating and strangling girlfriend Kysre Gondrezick, left. (Instagram/Barry Williams via Getty)

In a statement at his arraignment, Assistant District Attorney Mirah Curzer said Porter repeatedly punched Gondrezick, causing a gash to her right eye, and strangled her and broke a bone in her neck.

The criminal complaint alleges Gondrezick suffered a "fractured vertebrae" in her spine.

But Gondrezick, a former WNBA player, actually has a congenital defect that was mistaken for a cracked vertebra, according to a source and information reviewed by Fox News Digital.

"This was a condition she was born with that had little effect on her and was not a result of fresh trauma," said forensic pathologist Michael