From the desk of Matt Dery over at 97.1 The Ticket who covered The Pistons Media day on Monday.

Matt asks the questions we want to hear from Rip…are you happy to be back? Iverson…. How unhappy were you last year….Great interview from Matt, Listen UP!

Richard Hamilton Interview

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Matt with Charlie Villanueva on Twitter, defense, Detroit, Joe Dumars and more.

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It’s not uncommon for children to follow in their parents footsteps career wise.  Seriously how many NBA, NFL and MLB sons are in the league right now?

It’s also not uncommon for parents to want their kids to be something they never were and maybe push them that way.

What am I getting at?  Well I just noticed something the other day…I think Jason Maxiell’s parents were hoping he would be a male model because I had no idea that Jason’s middle name was not “baby eater” but it DIOR.

Yes Dior, Jason Dior Maxiell….  If Jason went that rout he would look a little something like this.

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Not bad huh?

Then I really thought about it, the Pistons would make great models.   Austin Day and Tayshaun Prince have that this wiry frame that fashion designers like Prada love and Charlie Villanueva just has that “look.”

And Rip…well he likes to be up on his game and considers himself a fash0nista …especially with the furs.

Here is a great YouTube video of Charlie Villanuava’s Top 10 plays of the 2008-2009 Season.

What prompted the @CV31 video?  This tweet he posted last night of this delightful video

“For those of ya that listen to reggaeton, check me out doing the Pepe dance: http://bit.ly/Lcfzt — LOL too funny!!!”

and ….it’s a hint to what the Sheedburgler is giving away over on my twitter accout.

If you’re following Charlie Villanueva on Twitter you would know that he’s running a contest for the best photo of him with hair.

There are really some awesome entries that you must check out by following @CV31.  This one doesn’t even compete with them but in the tradition of Need4Sheed I decided to do my own little take on the contest using the Toons I made of Charlie.

Pistons Guy

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With all the new Pistons acquisitions I have been a tooning fool lately. I had the most difficult time with the Charlie V toon and didn’t really like how it turned out even though @CV31 told me he liked it..so I made another one…which I’m not too happy with either.

I figured I would get your input…
Charlie V 1.0

Charlie V 2.0

Ultimately I think I have to give Charlie the final decision.

UPDATE Charlie V has SPOKEN…the Winner is!

Charlie V 1.5

Get to know Charlie Villanueva through our favorite NBA Correspondent Elie Seckbach.

Seems like Charlie has the right attitude for Detroit and my guess is he’s going to be a fan favotite.  Get your Charlie V Jersey right now before the Palace Locker Room sells out.

Follow Charlie if you aren’t already on Twitter.

Make sure you are following Elie on twitter too…he’s the king of NBA Video. Best of all Elie made sure he shared a little personal wisdom with me about Charle.

“CV is awesome, once the city of Detroit gets to know him they will love him -- he’ll be the new Sheed”

Charlie V = Sheed 2.0?

Our newest Pistons and Twitterholic Charlie Villanueva has a little running bet going with Chris Bosh.  First to 50 thousand Twitter Followers wins. The loser has to be in the others next YouTube video, as ANY character the winner wants!

Go help our newest Piston Following Him @CV31… You can tell him Need4Sheed sent you and we Rep the D for Charlie V!

The Official Video from Charlie V

Count as of 11:00 A.M. Friday July 10th

Charlie V -- 43,690

Chris Bosh -- 42,132

Count as of 1:50 PM Friday July 10th

Charlie V -- 43,737

Chris Bosh -- 42,234

Count as of 7:17 PM EST Friday July 10th

Charlie V -- 44,133

Chris Bosh -- 43,098

Count as of 10:00 AM EST Saturday July 11th

Charlie V -- 44,480

Chris Bosh -- 44,214

Count as of 11:30 AM EST Sunday July 12th

Charlie V -- 45,004

Chris Bosh -- 45,230

STEP IT UP DETROIT….

UPDATE: Sadly Chris Bosh won the contest….

It’s Official, The Pistons Charlie Villanueva and Ben Gordon are Detroit Pistons.

And Dyess is officially off to get his Ice in San Antonio and I wish him the best.