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. (The fourth game was disallowed after a timekeeping error and replayed two days later with Portland winning 76–74).[1]

Notable players

References

Maxey Jr, Wendell (January 1, 2009). "Indians were here before Trail Blazers" (PDF). Northwest Examiner. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 14, 2011. Retrieved December 13, 2010.

External links

History of the Pacific Coast Professional Basketball League

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[maxey-1] Maxey Jr, Wendell (January 1, 2009). "Indians were here before Trail Blazers" (PDF). Northwest Examiner. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 14, 2011. Retrieved December 13, 2010.