At best (for Melo fans) it's REALLY close.

Look, we've been arguing about Melo on this board his entire career. Over a decade. I've been on every side of it. He's always overrated to one side and blasphemously disrespected by another. Well, guess what? He's much closer to the end than the beginning now, and he's looking at a career that yielded a handful of decent individual accolades and absolutely nothing noteworthy as far as winning goes. That doesn't entitle him to automatic superiority over a guy like Pierce, who is a Finals MVP and played LeBron to, at worst, a standstill they were both in their primes (Bron entering, Pierce exiting, of course). Melo's got NOTHING like that to boast about, and that trumps the fuck out of one scoring title and some gold medals.