Detroit Pistons: 5 worst free-agent signings of all time

Detroit Pistons: The Jon Leuer signing was baffling

With Gordon and Villanueva, you could kind of sort of talk yourself into them at the time, as both were very good role players who might have had potential to be more, but the Jon Leuer signing was baffling then and remains so.

Leuer signed a 4 year $41 million deal with Detroit at age 26 after never having a single year in which he scored in double digits. NO ONE and I mean NO ONE was bidding on Jon Leuer, wanted him or would have paid half that to get him.

He was an un-athletic unknown who Stan Van Gundy mistakenly thought was going to blossom into the type of stretch-four that is now common. He definitely didn’t.

Leuer absolutely STUNK for the Pistons, so much that it was hard not to put him at number one on this list. He never shot more than 29 percent from 3-point range and in fact stopped shooting them at all in his final two years in Detroit, which would be his final two seasons in the NBA.

Leuer is one of the most overpaid players in NBA history, a baffling signing that never made sense and still doesn’t. Honestly, it’s surprising SVG even got another job in basketball after making this deal.