NBA's Derrick Rose testifies alleged rape victim consented to sex

NBA star Derrick Rose told a Los Angeles jury that his ex-girlfriend opened the door in her pajamas and invited him and two of his friends into her apartment for what he assumed would be a sexual encounter. Rose gave a starkly different account Friday than the one the alleged victim told during earlier testimony in the $21 million sexual assault lawsuit brought against Rose by the woman. Rose testified that he met the plaintiff, whose identity has been kept anonymous thus far, at a club in 2011 and had a "non-exclusive sexual relationship" with her for about a year and a half.

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