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Carolina is only 4 hours from Atlanta. I consider them more Southeast.

For what it’s worth DJ Moore tweeted this right before he got traded to the Bears

That’s fair, no changes to the divisions would have to be made.

It appears the Canadian teams are going to be able to play in Canada, but what if they had not been allowed to? I randomly assigned the seven franchises to a US city and realigned appropriately. Northeast Boston Bruins Buffalo Sabres New Jersey Devils New York Islanders New York Rangers Philadelphia Flyers Pittsburgh Penguins Washington Capitals Southeast Carolina Hurricanes Dallas Stars Edmonton Oilers (Houston) Florida Panthers Montreal Canadiens (Atlanta) Nashville Predators Tampa Bay Lightning Toronto Maple Leafs (Charlotte) Midwest Chicago Blackhawks Columbus Blue Jackets Detroit Red Wings Minnesota Wild Ottawa Senators (Kansas City) St. Louis Blues Winnipeg Jets (Milwaukee) Pacific Anaheim Ducks Arizona Coyotes Calgary Flames (San Diego) Colorado Avalanche Los Angeles Kings San Jose Sharks Vancouver Canucks (Portland) Vegas Golden Knights I wanted to send Calgary or Winnipeg to their former city but proximity wouldn’t allow me. Montreal or Ottawa would’ve been shipped out to San Diego. Not exactly ideal. Edmonton goes to Houston since Houston’s first NFL team was the Oilers. The Northeast doesn’t change from the 2020-2021 East.

Just had a thought...the NBA is thinking about having a division heavy schedule to reduce travel this year, so why not move the Timberwolves to the Eastern Conference just for this year. Yes it would mean the Western and Eastern Conferences would be imbalanced for a year but it would be worth it for them to play several games this year in Chicago and Milwaukee rather than Portland and Salt Lake City.

You put a lot of thought into it but way too many teams. Still that’s why this is called the pointless realignment thread.

https://nba.nbcsports.com/2020/11/13/if-not-toronto-raptors-reportedly-leaning-toward-playing-in-tampa-bay/ If only the Raptors played there full time. Not that divisions are relevant in the NBA, but it would allow them to swap with the Wizards, who really belong in the Atlantic anyway. WHOA...this might actually happen temporarily.

I agree swapping the Braves and Pirates and Reds and Astros would work best, but I can’t see the Braves going for expansion in BOTH Charlotte and Nashville. Then again we would make a killing for DOUBLE territorial infringement. I am a huge fan of sending the Astros back where they belong in exchange for the Rockies. Hoping that another team isn’t placed on the West Coast, the Rockies would otherwise have to be placed in a “Midwest” division with the Royals, Rangers and Twins. (If moved to the AL). Rooting for Nashville and Montreal. But Tampa will probably end up moving somewhere.

This would be a return to the pre-2004 format. I’d keep the Grizzlies in Memphis and in the West, and put the Timberwolves in the East. Even though Minnesota is further West than Memphis, they are right there with Milwaukee and Chicago. Memphis is relatively close to New Orleans. The reason for moving a West team East is because I would put an expansion team in Kansas City instead of Kentucky. San Diego or a return to Vancouver is intriguing but I don’t really want to put two expansion teams in one division. The only thing I hate to do is split up Denver and Utah but that is unavoidable if adding Kansas City.

So I guess the Charlotte NBA team becomes the Spirit if this had become reality.

Nice work! But all those teams in Florida, and you couldn’t put one in Charlotte?

Nashville to the Southeast, DC to the Eastern and Montreal to the Central. I know the latter is a bit of a stretch but it puts the Eastern Canadian teams together. But really, I just don’t like having a Washington, DC team in a southern division like they are in the NBA. Here’s my version that I did back when they first announced the expansion. Atlantic New England New York Red Bulls DC United Philly NYC FC Northeast (or Central) Montreal Toronto Cincinnati Columbus Chicago Southeast Atlanta Charlotte Miami Nashville SC Orlando Here’s how I did the West. I know my Southwest looks wonky but you just can’t split Vancouver from Seattle and Portland and Sacramento from San Jose. Southwest Dallas Houston Austin LAFC LA Galaxy Pacific Vancouver Portland Seattle San Jose Sacramento Northwest Minnesota St. Louis Kansas City Salt Lake Colorado

Could you imagine Bob Brenly managing the NL All-Stars in 2002, against his own players? It probably wouldn’t have ended in a tie (the AL probably wins again) and we never would have been stuck with “This One Counts”

I also envisioned a scenario in which the Marlins were contracted instead of the Twins as was also rumored. No NL team would’ve had to switch to the AL. The Pirates AND Reds move East and the Rockies move to the Central.

The Diamondbacks would have been the one to switch... https://a.espncdn.com/mlb/columns/mcadam_sean/1274034.html Them and the Devil Rays had a window that they could switch leagues without them having any say...and you can’t just move the Brewers right back to the AL...and I would have kept 3 divisions anyway to keep Atlanta or Cincinnati from moving back to the West...of course it would have been awkward switching the World Series champs, but, Selig... This is what realignment was going to be... AL East Baltimore Orioles Boston Red Sox New York Yankees Tampa Bay Devil Rays Toronto Blue Jays AL Central Chicago White Sox Cleveland Indians Detroit Tigers Kansas City Royals Texas Rangers (moved from AL West) AL West Arizona Diamondbacks Anaheim Angels Oakland Athletics Seattle Mariners NL East Atlanta Braves New York Mets Philadelphia Phillies Pittsburgh Pirates (moved back from NL Central) Washington Nationals (former Florida Marlins) NL Central Chicago Cubs Cincinnati Reds Houston Astros Milwaukee Brewers St. Louis Cardinals NL West Colorado Rockies Los Angeles Dodgers San Diego Padres San Francisco Giants

That’s true but only one postseason

I don’t miss the Baseball Network, even though it was for just one season thanks to the strike, worst idea in sports to have all the playoff games regionalized. I don’t miss the Atlanta Braves and Cincinnati Reds being in the NL West, the Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals being in the NL East, the Arizona Cardinals being in the NFC East and the Atlanta Falcons and Carolina Panthers being in the NFC West.

I forgot about that. They were sorted by division.

That too

MLB: Atlanta Braves NFL: Carolina Panthers NCAA: UNC, Charlotte 49ers NBA: Charlotte Hornets, Chicago Bulls (was die-hard when Jordan played) NHL: Carolina Hurricanes

—The Braves on TBS and Skip and Joe alternating with Pete and Don between TV and radio (RIP Skip and Pete) —The NBA on CBS and NBC —First round of the NFL Draft on Saturday afternoon —ACC basketball games on Raycom. It’s just not the same on the actual ACC Network. I don’t miss Raycom football as much because it started at 12:30 and it forced WBTV to have to join the SEC game in progress afterwards (never understood why they got away from noon) —The double round robin in ACC basketball but I know why it had to go —The Braves making more than one trip to cities in their league outside their division —Only having interleague in May and June, can’t expand fast enough. But I do like interleague. —The Astros being in the National League. Shutting the state of Texas out of the NL was a huge mistake. They should’ve moved the Rockies to the AL West and the Astros to the NL West.

I think I would keep the Senators in Washington, and still have the Braves move to Atlanta, the Pilots move to Milwaukee, and so the Padres still don’t move to Washington in this alternate timeline. So the Mariners still exist. I can’t fathom the Atlanta Senators.

https://www.mlb.com/news/featured/the-story-of-the-los-angeles-browns-changed-baseball-forever An alternate history based on if the St. Louis Browns had moved to Los Angeles in the early 1940s. —The A’s move to San Francisco —The Dodgers move to Dallas —The Giants move to Minnesota —The Astros are in the AL from the start as an expansion team —Baltimore Orioles are AL expansion team in 1961 —California Angels are NL expansion team instead of AL in 1961 —Mets lose 1969 World Series to LA Browns (my favorite) —The Senators move to Atlanta (we would have won 1987 and 1991 World Series...over the Braves in 1991, oh the irony) —The Milwaukee Braves stay in Milwaukee —The Seattle Pilots never move, but the original San Diego Padres (wearing blue and red instead of brown and orange) do move to Washington to become the Stars in 1974 as what almost happened in real life, and the Padres are reborn in the Mariners’ spot in the AL in 1977 –The Rays almost move to Oakland, would not have made sense without a new ballpark but at least it would have got the Astros out of the AL West. —The Cardinals are now in the NL West split from the Cubs, that and Atlanta being in the AL and not being the Braves doesn’t sit well with me, I like reality better even though Atlanta does get one more WS in this Browns to LA timeline.

Most people would, and I am a Braves fan...I was just going off that proposal that talked about putting the Braves in the Central and the Pirates in the East.

Sounds good to me and I’m glad you put the Florida teams together