No wonder Miami Heat superstar Dwyane Wade seems distracted at times this playoff season.

Rumors that his paramour, actress Gabrielle Union, recently was or currently is expecting his lovechild have been dogging Wade – this, as he fights through a nasty divorce with his high school sweetheart.

While Union, 36, denied it on a black entertainment website – “I love my margaritas too much,” she said – I’m told Wade’s soon-to-be-ex wife, Siohvaughn, went ballistic when Wade, 26, told her about the new baby. Especially since Siohvaughn accused the NBA’s top scorer in court documents of not taking care of the two rug rats they have together.

Does this woman look pregnant? (Courtesy Maxim online)

Siohvaughn told one of Olympic hero Wade’s former business partners in Fort Lauderdale that she was convinced Union was with child. Siohvaughn, who isn’t talking directly with the press after Wade filed a lawsuit in their hometown of Chicago demanding that she keep her mouth shut, also said Wade later claimed the pregnancy announcement was an “april fool’s joke.”

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Dwyane Wade with Siohvaughn

“I know Siohvaughan didn’t think it was a joke because she wasn’t happy,” said Richard Von Houtman, a Fort Lauderdale businessman whose relationship with Wade went sour last year at the same time as the restaurant chain he wanted to open with Wade. “Who jokes about stuff like that? That’s just sick.”

Lisa Joseph, Wade’s publicist, and Holly Shakoor, Union’s L.A. rep, responded to requests  for comment by both mentioning a one-line item in a Chicago gossip column earlier this month about how the pregnancy news was nothing more than a Heat locker-room prank gone bad.

One thing is sure, however. Union, who starred in Bad Boys II and Love and Basketball, has not been seen at Miami’s basketball arena since mid-February and was M.I.A. again Monday night as the Heat were schooled by the Atlanta Hawks.

Just like his back, Wade’s squeaky-clean image sure has been ailing as of late. Not only has Siohvaughn accused Wade in divorce documents of infecting her with a sexually-transmitted disease, but Von Houtman told me recently he rented for Wade a Miami Beach apartment that had been the scene of sex-soaked parties.

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