Bellevue Blackhawks
Founded	2004
Team History	Bellevue Blackhawks (2004-present)
Arena	Meydenbauer Center Meydenbauer Center Meydenbauer Center is a convention center in Bellevue, Washington. It is a prominent landmark from nearby Interstate 405 . The center opened in 1993. It has a fully carpeted and recently renovated exhibition hall, a meeting room, a 410 seat performing arts theatre which can also host business...
Team Colors	White, purple and black
Championships	0
Division Titles	0
Owner	Michael Tuckman Michael Tuckman Michael William Tuckman is the current president of West Coast Sports, LLC, and present owner of the Continental Basketball Association team Great Falls Explorers. The Explorers were purchased in November 2007 from Apex Sportstainment, present owners of the Minot SkyRockets. West Coast Sports also...
Head Coach	Rick Turner Rick Turner Rick Turner co-founded Alembic in 1970 and was involved in the design and construction of the Alembic instruments. He founded Rick Turner Guitars in 1979 and joined Gibson in 1988 where he served as president of Gibson Labs West Coast R&D Division.Turner left Gibson in 1992 and ran a guitar repair...
Cheerleaders	None
Mascot	None

The Bellevue Blackhawks were a professional basketball team affiliated with the American Basketball Association

American Basketball Association (21st century)

The American Basketball Association, often abbreviated as ABA, is a semi-professional men's basketball league that was founded in 1999. The current ABA has no affiliation with the original American Basketball Association that merged with the National Basketball Association in 1976...

 (ABA) and owned by former attorney and KONG_TV (Seattle) President and General Manager Michael Tuckman

Michael Tuckman

Michael William Tuckman is the current president of West Coast Sports, LLC, and present owner of the Continental Basketball Association team Great Falls Explorers. The Explorers were purchased in November 2007 from Apex Sportstainment, present owners of the Minot SkyRockets. West Coast Sports also...

. The team was based in the Seattle suburb of Bellevue, WA. In their maiden season (2004-05), the Blackhawks finished with a 17-10 regular season record and made the p[layoffs representing the Red Division of the Western Conference. The Blackhawks set a minor league basketball record by traveling more than 22,000 miles over the 2004-05 season, including road playoff victories over the Texas Tycoons (Dallas), the Maryland Nighthawks (Baltimore), the Utah Snowbears (Salt Lake City), and played three road games in Little Rock, AR against the Arkansas Rimrockers, including the ABA Championship game in front of 15,000 fans at AllTel Arena on March 26, 2005—still the largest crowd to ever attend an ABA game. The Rimrokers defeated the Blackhawks 118-115 after Bellevue led by five points at halftime. As a result of the team's amazing achievements, head coach Rick Turner was named 2004-05 ABA Coach of the Year, and Blackhawks' owner, President and General Manager, Michael Tuckman, was named the 2004-05 ABA Executive of the Year.

Tuckman expanded his ABA holdings by purchasing the Tacoma Navigators

Tacoma Navigators

The Tacoma Navigators, owned by Michael Tuckman, are a defunct team in the American Basketball Association. The Navigators made it to the playoffs in their first and only season only to forfeit their first round game in Newark, NJ. The team was coached by former Seattle Supersonics player Vincent...

, Olympia Titans and Vancouver Dragons

Vancouver Dragons

The Vancouver Dragons were a proposed expansion team set to play in the Continental Basketball Association. Team rights were owned by Michael Tuckman, president of West Coast Sports, LLC. The Dragons were initially slated to play in the ABA along with Tuckman's other teams...

, before purchasing the Great Falls Explorers of the Continental Basketball Association (CBA) in 2007.

Tuckman is currently President, General Manager and Chief Operating Office of KPST-TV, Puget Sound Television, an independent commercial broadcast television station in Seattle.