From espn.com:

Restricted free-agent forward Amir Johnson has agreed to re-sign with the Detroit Pistons in a three-year deal worth an estimated $12 million, NBA front-office sources told ESPN.com on Thursday.



The Pistons have now realized their top two off-season priorities by retaining the promising young Johnson and keeping 2004 NBA Finals MVP Chauncey Billups.


The Pistons have hardly used Johnson since taking him with the 56th pick in the 2005 NBA Draft. In two seasons with Detroit, Johnson has played in just 11 games.


He posted a career-high 20 points on 10-for-14 shooting in this season's finale against the Celtics.

ESPN - Sources: Pistons, Johnson agree to 3-year deal - NBA

I am thankful Amir is signed, but I wish the Pistons coulda got a team option for year 4.

Good stuff, now get him to that SL for a game.

Hopefully they were doing the negotiations in Vegas.

Doesn't matter. There's just one more game left and it will be on Saturday.

i was just about to post this anyway good news for us pistons fans

12 million? not a bad amount for the guy. Good agent squeezing that extra 2 million out of the team. Lets give some props to the ownership for signing off on a 4 mil/yr contract for a guy that is still relatively raw. Though I guess it is similiar to a lotto contract.

Hooray!!

Ok, so now we know what we saved. By hiding Johnson last year, and failing to win a championship for doing so, we saved a little over a million bucks. The most any team could have offered Johnson was 5.3 million, the average player salary this year. Wow, save a million, be mediocre. Cheap thinking.

For next year, first thing is Flip must be fired. We now need to get playing time for several young guys, something Flip Saunders is totally incapable of doing. If Dumars and Davidson are listenng to promises to the contrary from Flip, shame on them. We need to get JMAX, Stuckey, and Amir playing time, as well as Afflalo most likely. Maybe even Samb. The time is now to act. Get a coach.

Lets get real here. Flip is going to run the team. Samb will be lucky to stick around the NBDL. The rest of the youngsters should get the playing time. The question is where will Mejia end up.