By Reid Cherner, USA TODAY

Knight Rider, a shadowy flight into the dangerous world of a man who does not exist. Michael Knight, a young loner on a crusade to champion the cause of the innocent, the helpless, the powerless, in a world of criminals who operate above the law.

Who knew that the superstars have their own superheroes? But then who wasn’t influenced by the “Hoff?”

Miami Heat superstar Dwyane Wade has a new book coming out and in “A Father First: How My Life Became Bigger Than Basketball” the guard writes about his childhood and the importance of his children.

And here, courtesy of a review by Ira Winderman of the South Florida Sun Sentinel, is a paragraph you may have thought you’d never read:

In his darkest days of a difficult youth, he turned to watching “Knight Rider” alongside his grandmother, writing, “I actually told David Hasselhoff how he helped me get through the tough times in childhood.”

… [For more on David Hasselhoff was a mentor to Dwyane Wade, click here.]