15 worst free agent signings in Cavaliers history

Worst Cavaliers free agent signings No. 7: Jarrett Jack, 2013

We come to our third member of the 2013 Cleveland free agency class, and we aren’t even done yet. That summer the Cavaliers spent a whole lot of money and got relatively nothing out of it. One year after winning 24 games, they went all in and ended up winning…33 games. Any success they had was mostly because of the growth of young players like Kyrie Irving and Tristan Thompson, not their free agent class.

Jarrett Jack was arguably the best of the bunch, playing 2,252 total minutes in 80 total games. If the best ability is availability, Jack at least brought that to the team as a veteran point guard. The problem is that he didn’t bring a whole lot else, shooting just 41 percent from the field and 34.1 percent from 3-point range. On a team of terrible defenders he was at least competent, but he was far from a disruptor on that end.

Mediocre defense and ice-cold offense weren’t what the Cavs were expecting when they signed him to a four-year, $25.2 million contract. Making a mistake, even an expensive one, is manageable for a single season. The long contract forced the Cavs to pay to offload Jack’s salary the following summer to clear cap space for a certain Akron native in free agency.