Los Angeles Lakers head coach JJ Redick is vehemently denying he called a woman the N-word while a member of the Duke men's basketball team ... saying the interaction simply never happened.
Halleemah Nash -- an author, speaker, and Duke alum -- dropped the bombshell allegation on social media on 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 the campus of Duke University while I was doing work with the basketball team.