“It’s a clear summer day in LA. I got my workout this morning,” supposedly new Detroit Piston Charlie Villanueva tweeted Monday. “Now I’m off to Motor City: the process continues… physicals, signing on Wed.”

   Yes, Charlie is signing with the Detroit Pistons on Wednesday, when the moratorium period ends. He and guard Ben Gordon made 5 year deals verbally.

   “Last time I teamed up with BG we won a championship in 2004,” Villanueva tweeted last week.

   He will sign a 5 year/$40 million contract with Detroit.

Villanueva created a stir last season when he posted a message during halftime of a game with the Bucks on Twitter and got a stern lecture from Bucks coach Scott Skiles, who thought it gave the impression that Villanueva wasn’t focused.

Thanks to the publicity, the list of followers who subscribed to Villanueva’s Twitter feed quadrupled in just over 24 hours, going from about 1,600 subscribers to nearly 7,000. On Monday night, he had nearly 40,000 followers.

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