A team source has denied claims that Mavericks forward Drew Gooden insulted Clippers fans on Saturday night with a homosexual slur.
According to NBA spokesman Tim Frank, the league is reviewing the incident.
A Clippers season-ticket holder, who is not gay, said the comments were made after he and his friend and sat courtside, adjacent to the Mavericks bench, and did some "good-natured" heckling.
"After the game we went to the souvenir shop and my friend said he wanted to check if one of the kiosks had a particular jersey he was looking for, so he headed back through the stadium and I followed a few feet behind," Chris Wylde told Outsports.com.
"I saw him look shocked and turn to me, then I heard from Drew Gooden who was surrounded by three or four guys walking past me and pointing to me, 'There's that other faggot.' He had said, 'There's that faggot' about my friend and that's why he turned to me shocked. It was completely unsolicited. We said nothing to him during the game, or in the hallway. He just called us both 'faggots' because he's a bigoted spoiled bully."
Gooden declined to comment after the Mavericks shootaround Tuesday morning.