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