Pacific Coast Professional Basketball League Explained

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).^{[1] [2] [3]}

Notable players

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

External links

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

Notes and References

1. News: Indians were here before Trail Blazers. Maxey Jr. Wendell. January 1, 2009. December 13, 2010. Northwest Examiner. https://web.archive.org/web/20110714214501/http://www.nwexaminer.com/issues/xEarlierIssues/1January2009.pdf. July 14, 2011. dead.
2. News: Brian Gaynor . Portland's first pro basketball title still has some buzzing . 30 January 2024 . . 25 October 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240130085544/https://www.oregonlive.com/sports/2012/10/portlands_pro_basketball_title.html . 30 January 2024.
3. News: Brian Gaynor . Eugene's Ty Lovelace and other Oregonians played key roles on Portland's first pro basketball championship team in 1948 . 30 January 2024 . . 28 October 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210208144922/https://www.oregonlive.com/sports/2012/10/eugenes_ty_lovelace_and_other.html . 8 February 2021.