Detroit Pistons: Re-grading Jerami Grant’s signing and their free agency

The Detroit Pistons had a loud and calamitous offseason, starting with the trade of Bruce Brown to the Brooklyn Nets for Dzanan Musa and a second-round pick. We knew then that this was going to be a different kind of offseason than the Pistons generally conduct, but there was no preparing us for what was to come.

By the time the dust settled, the Pistons had turned over virtually the entire roster with just four holdovers from last season still aboard (and only three now after the Derrick Rose trade). Clearly, new general manager Troy Weaver took seriously his mandate to remake this team in his image.

Re-grading the Detroit Pistons’ free agency signings

The new-look Pistons are a team crafted to undergo a long-overdue rebuild. Mired in mediocrity for far too long, they prioritized the future for once and made a point of building around culture and embracing a Bad Boys-like approach to doing business.

In our review of the Pistons’ offseason, we’ll keep to just the free agency side of things. The draft and trades they made remain too murky and likely will be for some time, but we’re already seeing the fruits of their decisions in free agency.

For the purposes of this re-grading, I’ll use my Hoops Habit free agency tracker and grades which were updated in real-time as signings came in on the first night of free agency. I’ll compare the current grades to how I perceived them as the reports came in. I will also link to each grading so you can compare how things look now with the way they looked then.

We’ll start with the man of the hour for the Pistons, Jerami Grant.