'I was trained to do it': Derrick Rose tells gang-rape courtroom that NBA teaches its players to take home their condoms after sex

  • Chicago Bulls-turned-Knicks player Derrick Rose spoke in court Tuesday
  • He said the NBA tells them to flush or take home used condoms 
  • 'It's normal in my profession,' he said during $21.5m gang-rape lawsuit
  • He and pals Ryan Allen and Randall Hampton accused of raping 'Jane Doe'
  • They say she had consensual sex with them one-by-one 

By James Wilkinson For Dailymail.com

Published: 00:01 EST, 12 October 2016 | Updated: 16:25 EST, 12 October 2016

The NBA teaches its players to take home condoms after one-night stands so they leave no trace, New York Knicks player Derrick Rose said during his rape trial Tuesday.

He told a court that he had pocketed his condom after having what he claims was consensual group sex with two other men and a woman in 2013. She says they drugged and gang-raped her, and is suing them for $21.3million in damages. 

'In my profession they teach us to make sure you get the condom if you can't flush it,' the former Chicago Bulls player said, according to The Daily Beast. 'It's kind of normal with my profession.'

Sued: Derrick Rose (pictured on October 6) is being sued by 'Jane Doe,' who says he and two of his friends gang-raped her while she was blacked out in August 2013. All men deny the claims 

Sued: Derrick Rose (pictured on October 6) is being sued by 'Jane Doe,' who says he and two of his friends gang-raped her while she was blacked out in August 2013. All men deny the claims 

Taught: Rose told the court Tuesday that he was taught by the NBA to remove condoms after sex, and that he took home the condom he used in what he says was a consensual group act

Taught: Rose told the court Tuesday that he was taught by the NBA to remove condoms after sex, and that he took home the condom he used in what he says was a consensual group act

He told the court that after the sex act he placed the condom back in its wrapper and took it home - as he had been taught to do, he said, by the NBA's 'Rookie Transition Program' in Orlando, Florida.

Rose, 28, claimed in what was the second day of his trial that his 2008 'classes on sex' taught him 'to be very careful what you do with your condoms.'

'This girl wasn't someone I was going to introduce to my family or my mom,' he said. 

'No way I was going to leave a condom anywhere around her apartment. I was trained to do it.'

His co-defendants, friend Ryan Allen and personal assistant Randall Hampton - who both deny the gang-rape claims - flushed their condoms away in her bathroom.

But Rose said he kept his because he 'had it in (his) mind' to take it home.

Waukeen McCoy, representing the defendant, who is identified only as Jane Doe, suggested that Rose kept the condom because he didn't want anyone to know he was there.

Rose countered: 'It was probably in my pocket because I didn’t want to be disrespectful.'

Friends: Rose (pictured on far right) says his PA Randall Hampton (far left) and friend Ryan Allen (center) had sex at Doe's request, one by one
Condom: A condom like the one Rose used

Friends: Rose (pictured left, on far right) says his PA Randall Hampton (far left) and friend Ryan Allen (center) had sex at Doe's request, one by one. Right: A condom like the one Rose used

In her suit, Doe claims that Rose, Allen and Hampton drugged her drink after she visited Rose's home.

She says she was helped home by a friend, but the next morning all three men entered her apartment and raped her while she was blacked out on tequila.

The woman says she did not take a pregnancy test or use a rape kit because she was 'ashamed and embarrassed'.

'She kept thinking that this was "not supposed to happen,"' legal documents claim.

Rose's team, however, claim that she had voluntarily had sex with Hampton and Rose while visiting Rose's house, and later invited both men and Allen over to her place for sex.

They claim she was in control, and invited them to sleep with her one-by-one, with Rose having sex last. 

Tuesday's trial was rocky, with Rose's attorney, Mark D Baute, complaining that he received three of Doe's text messages too late.

They include a profane message the woman sent to Rose at 1:36am - after she left his home but before the alleged rape - in which she referred to him as 'babe' and asked why he didn't have sex with the friend she brought to his house earlier.

US District Court Judge Michael W Fitzgerald blasted the plaintiff's lawyer for being 'unbelievably careless' in producing exhibits, and said the gaffe could result in a mistrial or the case being thrown out. 

Should it need to be retried, the case would go into the NBA's next season. 

Accused: The men are being sued for $21.5million by Doe, who says they drugged her prior to gang-raping her

Accused: The men are being sued for $21.5million by Doe, who says they drugged her prior to gang-raping her

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