Six Degrees of Separation is the popular theory that you can link a person to anyone else in the world through acquaintances with an average of only six people separating the two individuals.

So what's Dwayne Wade got to do with Ty Cobb & Babe Ruth? Follow the trail that connects Dwayne through one of the greatest lines in Six Degress that will span 5 Hall of Fame players in baseball and basketball...

• ►Michael Jordan hand picked Dwayne Wade to join his Jordan Brand Shoe Company through a shoe endorsement deal.
• ►Dean Smith coached Michael Jordan while at North Carolina from 1982-84.
• ►Frank McGuire asked Dean Smith in 1958 to join him as an assistant on his coaching staff.
• ►Joe Lapchick was a close friend to Frank McGuire through his college years and later in life.
• ►Babe Ruth would often play barnstorming basketball games with Lapchick's Celtics teams during the 1920's
• ►Rip Collins played with Ruth on the 1920 & 1921 New York Yankee teams as well as Ty Cobb's Detroit Tigers of 1923 - 1926 seasons.

Dwayne Wade might have the single greatest six degrees of seperation that leads back into the 1920's.