And the fact that he plays big minutes and AI still played bigger speaks to AI's motor, which few guys had (ironically Spree was one of them in his prime, incredibly energetic).

You can harp on the meaningless years of a guy's career--the ones AI didn't play, the ones Melo will play in uninteresting fashion--but one guy's jacket is gold, first ballot. The other guy is watching his former team be on some addition-by-subtraction shit and underachieving.