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STARKVILLE — Josh Hubbard never had one particular favorite NBA team growing up, but the Miami Heat was one of them.

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They were one of the frequent teams on TV to watch when there was free time at his home in Jackson and then after moving to Madison in eighth grade. And it wasn’t just because the Heat were one of the NBA’s best teams in the 2010s when LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh teamed up for four straight NBA Finals appearances and two championships.

There was a blood connection, too.

Hubbard, the sophomore leading scorer with Mississippi State basketball, and Wade, the Hall of Famer, are cousins.

“A lot of games he played, my dad kept the TV on, and he would just say that he was our cousin,” Hubbard said.

There was one problem though.

Hubbard had never met Wade. And not many people outside the family even knew they were cousins until Wade sat courtside at the Nov. 22 Mi