Star Jones and Dwyane Wade are not playing ball, and no one is trying to drive that point home harder than the married Miami Heat star.
King of tact Charles Barkley, along with the always subtle team from TNT's Inside the NBA, put the full-court press on Wade when he appeared on the show Thursday, pressing him on the nature of his "great relationship" and "good friends" closeness—as evidenced in some recent paparazzi snaps—with Jones.
(A Jones rep echoed the sentiment today, telling E! News: "They are just good friends.")
While the newly single Jones may not, as Barkley suggests, be a cougar "preying on a young Dwyane Wade," her hunting season may not be far off. Shudder.