Dwight Howard says he received a call from NBA commissioner Adam Silver almost immediately after he tweeted “Free Palestine” more than a decade ago — a claim the league denies.

The controversy occurred in July of 2014, when Howard was a member of the Houston Rockets.

“Less than 10 minutes after I tweet that, I get a call from the commissioner of the NBA,” Howard said on Monday’s episode of “The GAUDs Show” podcast. “Agents, people working with my foundation at the time, Texas. ‘You’ve got to erase this tweet. You’ve got to take this down.’ I’m like, ‘What did I do that was so bad?’”

Howard, 39, said, “I dang near got kicked out [of] the league for it.”

In an email Wednesday to the Daily News, NBA spokesman Mike Bass refuted Howard’s claim as “categorically false.”

In 2014, Howard deleted the tweet shortly after he published it, then apologized in subsequent posts for commenting on “international politics,” according to The Atlantic’s coverage at the time. Howard’s tweet came amid conflict between Israel and Hamas.

On this week’s podcast episode, Howard said he felt compelled to share the tweet after meeting Palestinian fans while attending a movie in Houston.

“They asked me to just bring some awareness to what’s going on in their country,” Howard said. “Me having a big heart, I’m like, ‘You know what? I want people to know the struggles y’all [are] having.’”

But the alleged response surprised Howard, he said.

“When you’re in the league, you be in that place where, ‘If I...

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