: ATLANTA (AP) — Dwyane Wade has finally spoken up about his alleged romance with Star Jones: "Star is an unbelievable woman. We have a great, great relationship. As friends."
"We're friends, just like a lot of celebrities. We are friends," the Miami Heat star said Thursday during a guest appearance on "Inside the NBA," the jocular TNT show featuring Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith and Ernie Johnson.
"Are y'all close friends?" Smith asked. "We're good friends," Wade responded.
"Are you the kind of friends that drink out of one cup with two straws?" Smith persisted, referring to a much-discussed photo of Wade, 26, and Jones, the 46-year-old TV personality who recently filed for divorce, at a tennis match. "Those kind of friends?"
"We are friends. That's all," said Wade, who is married to his high school sweetheart and has two sons.
"Good friends?" Barkley interjected.
"Naw, Chuck," Wade said with a smile.
Some hilarity ensued. Barkley broke through the commotion to say, "I like Star. She's a cougar."
"What's a cougar?" Smith asked, not so innocently, a perfect lob to Barkley.
Sir Charles promptly slammed the ball home: "Preying on a young Dwyane Wade."
Representatives for Jones did not immediately return a call for comment Thursday night.
@ lani3000...lol! For real because Wayne is really cutting up with this one. Star Jones??? First *** Kucher and Demi Moore then Usher and Tameka, then Mariah and Nick Cannon please don't do Wade because if you do the world is coming to an end...LOL! I'm just joking ya'll do not take my comments serious...there is nothing like true love no matter what the age difference.
Obviously Star Jones has something that Dwayne likes and finds comforting. Good conversation with a mature woman goes a long way for a man. I think that Star is a very intelligent and successful black woman that has something else to offer than just a fine azz and [EXPLETIVE]. It stands to reason than Dwayne wants a connection on a deeper level that a woman his age rarely can provide. In the end to each his own and if they are just friends or more than it's none of my business. Do yo thang D. Wade!!!!
they were bashing on him the whole entire show yo..they kept showing the picture..kenny and charles are SO Funny..charles need to get his own reality show..they were making cougar noises in the background..rofl..dwade need to go fishing lol..i dont think their dating..i have a feeling wade and gabby is dating