re: Why isn't AI more appreciated?

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And the year before his last year, they won 43 games. So in his last 2 years, they won 81 games, and when he left, they won 75 in the next two. Wow. What improvement.

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You completely missed my point. If Iverson was such a great player, why didn't his team's performance drop off dramatically without him? Look at all the top players in the league who left their teams. The Cavs went from a 60 win team with Lebron to having the second worst record in the NBA the year after he left. The Hornets win total was cut in half after Chris Paul left. Orlando has gone from an above average Eastern Conference team to one of the worst teams in the NBA without Dwight Howard. I can go on and on. A player whose main attribute is scoring has to either bring other things to the table or score at a highly efficient level to make a big impact on the game. Iverson doesn't fit into either category. Hell, if you gave his 22 shots per game to his other teammates, I'm sure they could have averaged 42% shooting from the field as well. What's the difference?