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Opening statements began the woman's $21.5 million federal court lawsuit, which claims she was either drugged or had drunkenly passed out before the sexual encounters at her apartment in August 2013.

woman who says Derrick Rose and two friends gang-raped her wept quietly in court as her lawyer provided jurors with lurid descriptions but the NBA star's defense fired back by portraying the encounter as something from a porn film, not a horror movie.

She was the victim of a "classic gang rape" by a man Rose who has never shown remorse and told New York Knicks President Phil Jackson that he'd lost no sleep over the matter, attorney Waukeen McCoy said.

Rose, 28, didn't appear for the start of trial he was in Houston a day earlier for the Knicks' preseason opener but he was expected in court Thursday.

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

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."

 A woman who says Derrick Rose and two friends gang-raped her wept quietly in court as her lawyer provided jurors with lurid descriptions but the NBA star's defense fired back by portraying the encounter as something from a porn film, not a horror movie.

Opening statements began Wednesday in the woman's $21.5 million federal court lawsuit, which claims she was either drugged or had drunkenly passed out before the sexual encounters at her apartment in August 2013.

She was the victim of a "classic gang rape" by a man Rose who has never shown remorse and told New York Knicks President Phil Jackson that he'd lost no sleep over the matter, attorney Waukeen McCoy said.

Rose, 28, didn't appear for the start of trial he was in Houston a day earlier for the Knicks' preseason opener but he was expected in court Thursday.

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

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."