Yeah, I know: Bummer. Ain’t nothing any of us can really do about Afghanistan, but remember that other smoked-out hole of memories and old-world vibes we were talking about the other day? That’s right, I’m talking about your Philadelphia 76ers! And by now, you probably know that they re-signed Allen Iverson! Or you might know him as the rapper Jewels! Like most Philadelphians — or at least the ones interviewed in sports bars on local TV news — we see this as a unilaterally good move. Iverson wasn’t doing shit, the Sixers haven’t really been doing shit — unless you count awesomely retro-fying their logo and other marketing materials — and who knows? This low-risk, kinda-kooky deal might just be what the doctor ordered, if only to get asses in the seats at Sixers games (have you caught a game on TV lately? it looks like an overbooked self-help lecture in the Wach) and remind us all of the days when the 76ers were not the city’s dimmest sports light. ESPN has a pretty good analysis of what it all means. Iverson is set to make his Sixers re-debut on Monday against the Denver Nuggets. It’s going to be… something. After the jump, we talk about practice.

[Illustration: Thom Lessner]

This entry was posted on Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 at 12:58 pm.