Remembrance of Stiffs Past

The Sixers have signed 35-year-old contract punchline Theo Ratliff to a one-year deal. When last seen, the Rattler was providing deep bench minutes for the Pistons in their playoff with Boston, and he's not, you know, good. Plus, at 35, he's not getting better, or less brittle. But at least he does something (weak side shot blocking -- note, not on the ball defense) well, and from your back-up center, that's better than nothing.

The biggest bonus from having Theo around is that he provides a warm fuzzy nostalgic feeling from the 2000-01 era, when he led the charge for a while before getting hurt and turning into Dikembe Mutumbo.

(And you would have won a nice chunk of change taking the parlay pick that both heads of that hydra would still be in the Association eight years later. Nothing on this Earth can kill Mutumbo, because everything on this Earth is just waiting for it's chance to Sex Mutumbo.)