Is Theo Ratliff quickly turning into a Marcus Camby clone?  As Camby sits out injured.... again.. Ratliff joins him... again.  Ratliff, averaging 12 points, 6.5 rebounds, 3.5 blocks in 33.5 minutes, is out with a sore left hip flexor that was irritated Thursday night in a loss to Washington.  He came into training camp with the persistent problem, has had fluid drained from his hip joint and the hip injected with medication all to no avail.  This follows sitting out the second half of the season last year after breaking his wrist with the Sixers.

The injury and an illness in Ratliff's family could prevent him from playing on the early stops of the Hawks' West Coast trip that starts Monday in Los Angeles, reports Jeff Denberg from the Atlanta Journal-Consititution.  He will be replaced in the starting lineup by Nazr Mohammed, who has done a wonderful job so far in his stint with the Hawks.