15 worst free agent signings in Cavaliers history

Worst Cavaliers free agent signings No. 11: Earl Clark, 2013

We wrote earlier about the spending spree the Cavs went on in the summer of 2013, adding veteran players to supplement their talented youngsters. Earl Clark was signed to bolster the forward corps, handed a very strong $4.25 million contract for his services.

Those services were, unfortunately for both the Cavaliers and Clark’s career, quite lacking. Clark shot just 37.5 percent from the field and 34.5 percent from 3-point range, averaging 4.8 points and 2.6 rebounds. The Cavs ended up using his salary to trade for Spencer Hawes, and he would play just 19 games the rest of his career as he fizzled out as an NBA player.

Worst Cavaliers free agent signings No. 10: Mike Miller, 2014

LeBron James loves to play with other players he can trust, and there were few players in his career he trusted more than Mike Miller. The wing shooter won two titles with LeBron on the Miami Heat, and in 2014 he followed James to Cleveland and signed with the Cavaliers to make a run at another title.

Unfortunately for the Cavs, Miller just didn’t have it anymore by the time he was in Cleveland. He played in 52 games but his 3-point shooting plummeted to 32.7 percent and he averaged just 2.1 points per game. His defense vanished, his minutes dissipated and he became a fringe rotation player on a good team that succeeded despite him, not because of him.