Derrick Rose's lawyers ask his rape accuser to stop CRYING in the middle of her harrowing testimony after the NBA star arrived two hours late to the court hearing

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Derrick Rose arrived in court to face the woman who has accused him of rape - two hours after the hearing began.

The NBA star walked into the U.S District Court in downtown Los Angeles wearing a suit and surrounded by his legal team on the second day of trial in the $21.5 million civil lawsuit.

The woman told jurors on Thursday that she had wanted to remain anonymous because she didn't want her family to know about it.

As she was testifying, Rose entered the courtroom for the first time and she paused.

He sat by his legal team and picked up a pad and pen. She then got emotional as she described the events of the night of the alleged attack in August 2013 from the stand. 

Reporters inside the court say the three-time All Star's attorneys asked the judge to get the woman to stop crying during her testimony - but their request was denied.  

Derrick Rose arrives at a Los Angeles court on Tuesday, two hours late, to face the woman who has accused him of rape

At one point a member of Rose's legal team allegedly said: 'Is she going to cry all afternoon.'

U.S. District Judge Michael W. Fitzgerald told the player's attorneys: 'I'm not going to order the witness not to cry any more than I'm going to order her not to breathe.'

She says she went to Rose's rented Beverly Hills mansion for drinks, got very drunk and felt like she had been drugged.

When she got home, she claims that she vomited and passed out. Her lawsuit claims the men came to her apartment and gang-raped her.

She said she drank before going to the mansion then had 3½ shots of tequila when she got there and felt different.

'I just felt I was less in control, more goofy,' she said.

The witness said she had previously had tequila with Rose and felt like it gave her strength.

'This was the opposite,' she said. 

According to TMZ Sports, Rose initially pulled up in a black SUV and saw the media waiting.

So he turned around and got his driver to take him to an exit where there were less cameras. 

On Wednesday, her lawyer provided jurors with lurid descriptions of the alleged attack.

But the NBA star's defense fired back by portraying the encounter as something from a porn film, not a horror movie, and insisted the sex was consensual.

Opening statements began on Wednesday in the trial.

The alleged victim, who used to date Rose, claims she was either drugged or had drunkenly passed before the alleged attack at her apartment in 2013.

He walked passed waiting members of the media on the second day of the trial to watch his ex-girlfriend testify in the $21.5million lawsuit 

Rose entered the court as his accuser was recounting her events of the August 2013 night in question. She paused as he came in and got emotional

Her attorney, Waukeen McCoy, said she was the victim of a 'classic gang rape' by a man — Rose — who has never shown remorse. 

Rose even told Knicks President Phil Jackson that he'd lost no sleep over the matter, the attorney said.

Rose, 28, didn't appear for the start of trial — he was in Houston a day earlier for the Knicks' preseason opener. It is not known how much of the trial he is set to attend. 

The six women and two men chosen as jurors on Wednesday found themselves listening to play-by-play descriptions of the encounter.

The New York Knicks point guard (pictured arriving in court), who is in the middle of pre-season preparations, has not been charged with any crime in relation to the case 

Rose enters the U.S. District Court in downtown Los Angeles. He has been accused of drugging and sexually assaulting the 30-year-old woman 

Rose pulled up in a black SUV and saw the scrum of media waiting. So he turned around and tried to get into an entrance where there were less cameras 

But they had pained expressions as the woman's lawyer provided a graphic description of what he described as a callous assault as she faded in and out of consciousness.

'The plaintiff will tell you all three men were in the bedroom at the same time,' McCoy said. 'Each of them took turns raping her, they don't even know who went first.'

As he spoke, the 30-year-old woman leaned forward so her long dark hair covered her face and dabbed at her eyes with tissues.

Rose's ex-girlfriend wept in court on Wednesday as her lawyer gave lurid descriptions of the attack. Rose is pictured during a pre-season game against the Houston Rockets on Tuesday

The Associated Press is not naming her because it generally does identify people who say they are victims of sexual assault.

No criminal charges have been filed against Rose but Los Angeles police continue to investigate.

In sharp contrast to McCoy's statement, defense lawyers doubled down on their assertions that the accuser willingly had sex with the trio at Rose's mansion in Beverly Hills.

They said the woman gave lap dances earlier under a sky full of stars by the side of Rose's pool overlooking city lights, performed oral sex on Rose and had sex with his two friends before inviting them back to her apartment.

'There was no gang rape,' attorney Mike Monico said. 'There was no rape at all.'

McCoy said the story about her having sex earlier in the night was falsely concocted to try to show she was insatiable and wanted to have sex with the men later that night.

Rose, 28, didn't appear for the start of trial — he was in Houston a day earlier for the Knicks' preseason opener (above). His lawyers insist the sex was consensual

Jurors will have to rely primarily on her word against that of Rose and the other two men, Ryan Allen and Randall Hampton. 

There is no physical evidence because the woman was not examined by a doctor afterward and did not report the rape to police for two years — after filing the $21 million suit.

McCoy said the woman was too embarrassed to initially report the incident.

After sex, Rose took his condom, put it back in the wrapper and took it with him 'like he was never there,' McCoy said.

NBA players are instructed to flush their condoms down the toilet or take them so women can't use the sperm to impregnate themselves, Rose's lawyer said.

Rose was traded to the New York Knicks this season after spending his previous seven years in his native Chicago with the Bulls. He's in the final year of a five-year deal that will pay him $21.3 million, almost identical to what the plaintiff is seeking.

'It's a sad effort to get a lottery hit,' attorney Mark Baute said of the lawsuit.

The defense will focus on the many text messages the woman exchanged with Rose, whom she dated on and off for nearly two years. 

The lawyers said the messages showed she was lucid and not intoxicated after returning home from Rose's mansion. They denied she was ever drugged.

The two were split up when she texted Rose out of the blue the morning of August 26 to say he makes her 'horny.'

Rose replied by asking what she was doing that night and suggested she bring a friend over for a threesome. 

She rejected that idea, but agreed to bring a friend over later for drinks.

A clip from a deposition taken of Rose was played in which he was asked if there was anything in the text messages that led him to believe the plaintiff wanted to have sex with him and two friends that night.

He said, 'No.'

In a later clip, he was asked if he understood what consent means.

He also answered, 'No.'