Pacific Coast Professional Basketball League

The Pacific Coast Professional Basketball League was a professional basketball league with teams from the Pacific Northwest in the United States and Canada. The league existed for two seasons, 1946-47 and 1947-48.

Teams

Three teams played in both seasons:

• Bellingham Fircrests
• Portland Indians
• Vancouver Hornets

These teams played in the 1946-47 season, but dropped out for the 1947-48 season:

• Salem Trailblazers
• Seattle Blue Devils
• Spokane Orphans
• Yakima Ramblers

These teams joined the league for the 1947-48 season:

• Astoria Royal Chinooks
• Seattle Athletics
• Tacoma Mountaineers

Champions

• 1946-47: Bellingham Fircrests won round robin playoffs; chose not to play in the World Professional Basketball Tournament, so runner-up Portland Indians went instead, losing to the Sheboygan Redskins in the first round.
• 1947-48: Portland Indians defeated Seattle Athletics 3 games to 1. (The fourth game was disallowed after a timekeeping error and replayed two days later with Portland winning 76–74).

Notable players

• George (Porky) Andrews
• Gale Bishop
• Norm Baker
• Al Brightman
• Boody Gilbertson
• Noble Jorgensen
• John Mandic
• Ken Suesens
• Urgel (Slim) Wintermute

References

External links

• History of the Pacific Coast Professional Basketball League
• PCPBL - NBA Hoops Online Complete history of the league.