Sixers plan to reveal new mascot in February

In what has to be one of the top five Sixers stories of the season, the team will be unveiling a brand new mascot February 10 at the Franklin Institute.

The pressure is on. This is the organization's first big dramatic mascot mystery since the introduction of the Delaware 87ers' "Exploding Question Mark Head."

It turns out he was actually a fox. Which is also nice.

Showing fans only a glimpse of a furry blue arm causing inoffensive office mischief and contaminating people's sandwiches, the Sixers will attempt to end years of debate on who should be their team's biggest costumed cheerleader, ever since banishing "Hip-Hop, the bunny rabbit on PEDs" to the shadowlands between worlds. At one point, there was talk of Ben Franklin or even a moose that can play basketball.

The mascot is reportedly designed by kids ("for kids, by kids," says the video on the team's web site) so it's probably a Pokemon or a Disney Infinity or whatever kids are into these days. Do kids still like bikes? Maybe it's a bike. With arms.