Pacific Coast Professional Basketball League
- 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 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.
Notable players
*George (Porky) Andrews
*Gale Bishop
*Norm Baker
*Al Brightman
*Noble Jorgensen
*John Mandic
*Ken Suesens
*Urgel (Slim) Wintermute
External links
* [http://www.apbr.org/pcpbl.html History of the Pacific Coast Professional Basketball League]
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