I had no idea what I was doing when I created Celtics Bandwagon in the fall of 2006. Thankfully SB Nation saw something and brought me aboard. That coupled with my bold strategy to trick environmentalists into becoming Celtics fans led to the creation of Green Bandwagon in March of '07. In my over year and a half here I've seen the C's hit rock bottom (the 5th pick!) and then inexplicably climb to the top of the mountain. It's been a fun ride. And now CelticsBlog is joining the aforementioned SB Nation. Obviously this is big news. CelticsBlog is a giant in the NBA blogosphere. But what does it mean moving forward? A lot:

- Starting this Friday (October 24th) Green Bandwagon will no longer be SB Nation's Boston Celtics themed blog. However, it will live on in an archive section on CelticsBlog.

- All Green Bandwagon members will become CelticsBlog members.

- I will write for CelticsBlog, which is something I did in the past. Who can forget my epic Leon Powe/Bill Laimbeer post? Ideally the move will expose my work to a much bigger audience and free me up to write posts about what really interests me.

- You can still reach me at greenbandwagon@gmail.com.

At the risk of leaving someone out I want to thank all of the readers and bloggers that helped me along the way at various points. Off the top of my head that includes Steve Weinman, esp4p3, njnick, Michael18, Georgia, Hossy, NHRoyal, PNH91, and Rondo. Also Blez from Athletics Nation, your friendly Bulls Blogger from Blog-a-Bull, LaRocque from ROOMOFZEN, FLCeltsFan from Loy's Place, Fooch from Niners Nation, atthehive from At The Hive, Cornrows from Indy Cornrows, Seth from Posting and Toasting (incidentally one of my favorite blog names), Dave from Blazers Edge, and Pradamaster from Bullets Forever. I'm sure there's many more. In closing I've already got some good posts planned for CelticsBlog. So I'm going to take a few days off and end this with a picture I've run to start and finish my blogs (all 2 of them):

Catch you on the flip side.

- Anytime Rajon Rondo starts to limp around I get concerned. And even though initial reports are good I'm taking the wait and see approach. I've had numerous fantasy baseball and basketball teams felled by guys who were initially day-to-day and then didn't play for weeks on end. As a side note, every now and then it's fun to be alarmist.

- It's a blast when Eddie House gets hot from deep.

- Where is Boston's defense?

- The newer, lighter Stephon Marbury is a hell of a lot quicker than he used to be. He always could get to the rim. I can't imagine too many second team players can hang with him. And not many starters for that matter.

- The Knicks have an entirely new attitude. There will be some bumps in the road, but it looks like their laughingstock status has come to an end. Not sure how I feel about that.

- Look for the C's to attack David Lee on offense when these two teams meet in the regular season.

- It's always hard to make sense of a preseason game. Still, give the Knicks credit. They got after it.

- New York did a much better job of getting to the line (34-43) than Boston did (12-19). Believe it or not Tommy Heinsohn thought there was something rotten about it.

- That's it for now. Unless someone gets cut I'm taking the weekend off in preparation for the real season.

The latest installment, courtesy of Celtics Blog. Enjoy.

Chicago Bulls
Nels: Give Me The Rock
Matt: Blog-a-Bull

Cleveland Cavaliers
Rock: Waiting For Next Year
FTS: Fear The Sword
David Friedman: 20 Second Timeout
Amar Panchmatia: Cavalier Attitude

Detroit Pistons
Brian Spencer: Empty the Bench
Natalie Sitto: Need4Sheed.com
Matt Watson: Detroit Bad Boys

Indiana Pacers
Tom: Indy Cornrows

Milwaukee Bucks
Jeramey Jannene: The Bratwurst
Frank Madden: BrewHoop

I watched chunks of last night's game and was encouraged to see Tony Allen playing/looking better than he has in quite some time. Meanwhile, Sam Cassell will make his debut tonight and my lukewarm thoughts on Darius Miles' play so far are shared by others.

In other news I've been a little distracted due to a major announcement about Green Bandwagon's future that should come down sometime in the next 4 days. So look out for that. In the meantime head over to the always stellar Posting and Toasting to get caught up on the Knicks.

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At some point during the regular season I will write a post about a basketball team playing listless, uninspired basketball. If last year was any judge it won't be the Celtics. However, I encourage a player from said team to log on here and remind me how I went through the motions during the preseason. For example I spent the better part of today thinking Boston was playing New York tonight. I ran through several different post ideas and realized that New Jersey was tonight's opponent. Ugh. The Nets. To be fair I do have a passing interest in the organization for a few reasons:

1. I'm still intrigued by Yi Jianlian. That doesn't mean he's good.

2. I  tried for over a year to get a Sean Williams/Marcus Williams "Smoking and Stealing" campaign going. Unfortunately the former Huskie moved on to Golden State. So yeah.

3. How many LeBron to the Nets stories does the NBA blogosphere have left in it? 1000.

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This was one of the most boring games I've ever watched. It was choppy, the crowd was, for the most part, lifeless and overall the game just dragged on until Leon Powe mercifully blocked a shot to prevent overtime. That doesn't mean I don't have some thoughts:

- If a decision on Darius Miles were based upon what he has done so far, he'd get cut. I just can't get too caught up in him hooking another bench player and throwing in a lay up. And that was his biggest contribution last night.

- The starters for the most part looked good. And I say "for the most part" because Kendrick Perkins was rusty, which was to be expected.

- What does Leon Powe do? Get buckets. Apparently he also refrains from talking to the training staff about hand injuries until the swelling gets out of control.

- "Rajon Rondo is a potential Hall of Famer." - Tommy Heinsohn after Gary Tanguay asked if Rondo had any shot of making the All Star Game this year.

- I wish we could fast forward 2 months just so I could hear what we'll be saying about the bench. My guess? There will be some rocky moments.

- I'm a big Tony Allen fan and even I worry about his consistency.

Finally, it looks like Brian Scalabrine is safe:

“I have no intention of cutting Scal,” Ainge said. “It’s early. We think Scal can help us. Last year when KG got hurt, Scal started and we were 7-2 in those games. Our team defense was even better. I’m not saying he’s a better defensive player than KG, but we were able to maintain things and play good team defense."

I don't remember it like that. In fact I recall Glen Davis and Leon Powe coming off the bench and making an impact while Scal drove me crazy in the starting role. It was Big Baby that made Tim Duncan work in that Sunday game against the Spurs. Oh well. That does add some intrigue to the next couple of weeks.