Coban Porter, brother of Nuggets’ Michael Porter Jr., sentenced to prison in fatal DUI cra

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Coban Porter, the brother of Denver Nuggets star Michael Porter Jr., was sentenced to six years in prison Friday for killing a woman in a drunk-driving crash last year.

Porter, 22, pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide and vehicular assault in February on the condition that he would be sentenced to no more than eight years in prison. He could have faced up to 12 years in prison without the plea agreement.

“All I can really say is that I’m sorry,” Porter said in a Denver courtroom Friday. “I know that I’m never going to be able to right that wrong… I never thought I’d be standing here. I thought I was invincible. It wasn’t the first time I chose to drink and drive… I’m so sorry.”

Porter was driving drunk just before 2 a.m. on Jan. 22, 2023, when he ran a red light and crashed into another vehicle at the intersection of South University and Buchtel boulevards in Denver. The other driver, Kathy Limon Rothman, 42, was killed, and a passenger in her vehicle was seriously injured.

Prosecutors on Friday said Porter was driving 50 mph in a 30 mph zone and his blood-alcohol level was .19, more than twice the legal limit of .08. Rothman, mother to a young son, was working as an Uber driver at the time.

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Porter was at the time a student and basketball player at DU; he left the school in early 2023.

Porter’s older brother, 24-year-old Jontay Porter, also made headlines this week when he was banned from the NBA after a league investigation found he disclosed confidential information to sports bettors about his health, and limited his own participation in games for betting purposes.

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