Los Angeles Lakers coach JJ Redick is vehemently denying that he called a woman the N-word while he was a member of the Duke men’s basketball team … saying the interaction simply never happened.
Halleemah Nash — an author, speaker and Duke alumnus — dropped the bombshell allegation on social media Tuesday … claiming, “I’ve only been called the N-word to my face by a white man once in my life and it was on Duke University campus while I worked on the basketball team.”
“And today he was named the new head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers. What a world.”
Redick — a former college basketball star at Duke and 15-year NBA veteran — was introduced as the 29th head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers on Monday.
The allegation was posted to Nash’s account at 9:10 a.m. Tuesday… and, as of this posting, has been viewed 10 million times.
We reached out to Redick’s camp to get a response to the complaint… and they shut him down completely.
“No, that never happened,” said a spokesperson TMZ Sports.