American Basketball Association (Alternity)

The American Basketball Association (ABA) is the primary professional basketball league of the United States. It was founded in 1946 with an initial 14 teams, and in 1976, the ABA bought out its competition - the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the Pacific Basketball League (PBL) - nearly doubling the number of teams and greatly increasing the overall talent pool. The ABA currently consists of 36 teams, divided between the Eastern and Western Conferences, with the Eastern Conference made up of the Atlantic, Cental, and Southeast divisions, while the Western Conference consists of the Midwest, Southwest, and Pacific divisions. Every year between April and June the ABA playoffs take place in which 16 teams (8 Western & 8 Eastern) compete in a tournament with a best of 7 series.

Southeast
(* added due to buy out of the NBA)

Pacific Division
(* added due to buy out of PBL)