re: Why isn't AI more appreciated?

Those sixers teams were actually pretty good considering how weak the east was at the time. They seem weak to the casual fan because they lacked flashy scorers (besides AI)...this was done on purpose. Basically, they had AI the one man offensive threat and then surrounded him by great fitting role players, unselfish defenders to be exact. It made for a good team considering the conference, but basically any volume scorer could have done similar with that team.