LOCKER room razzing spilled out on the air over the weekend when jocks on TNT’s “Inside the NBA” show began teasing Miami Heat star Dwayne Wade about dating Star Jones.

Jones, who filed for divorce from husband Al Reynolds last month, has been linked romantically to Wade. For now at least, Wade is claiming they are “just friends.”

But the hosts of the NBA show – retired stars Charles Barkley and Kenny Smith – were not going to let him off so easily during a guest appearance.

“Are y’all close friends?” Smith asked. “Are you the kind of friends that drink out of one cup with two straws?”

A much publicized photo of Wade, 28, and Jones, 46, showed them sharing the same drink at a tennis match last month

“Those kind of friends?” he asked. “I like Star,” Barkely added. “She’s a cougar.”

“What’s a cougar?” Smith asked.

“Preying on a young Dwayne Wade,” Barkley replied.

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