The Pacific Coast Professional Basketball League was a professional basketball

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 league with teams from the Pacific Northwest

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 in the United States

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 and Canada

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. The league existed for two seasons: 1946-47 and 1947-48.

Teams

Three teams played in both seasons:

• Bellingham Fircrests
• Portland Indians
  Portland Indians
  The Portland Indians were a professional basketball team in Portland, Oregon. They were a member of the Pacific Coast Professional Basketball League for the duration of the league, which only lasted two seasons: 1946–47 and 1947–48...
  
  
• 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
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  , so runner-up Portland Indians went instead, losing to the Sheboygan Redskins
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   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
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• Norm Baker
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• Al Brightman
• Noble Jorgensen
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• John Mandic
  John Mandic
  John J. Mandic was an NBA player who played from 1948-1950. He played in college for Oregon State University. He played in 56 games for the Indianapolis Jets, 3 games for the Baltimore Bullets, and 22 for the Washington Capitols over the 1948-49 and 1949-50 seasons.-External links:* - John...
  
  
• Ken Suesens
  Ken Suesens
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• Urgel (Slim) Wintermute
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External links

• History of the Pacific Coast Professional Basketball League