The Astoria Royal Chinooks, known also as the Lower Columbia Royal Chinooks, were a professional basketball team based in Astoria, Oregon who played in the Pacific Coast Professional Basketball League (PCBL) during the 1947–48 season.
Wally Palmberg, a graduate of Oregon State University, was their player-coach and part-owner.
[1] At the start of February, 1948 the Royal Chinooks called a team meeting to announce that they were folding due to low attendance.
All of their roster were declared free agents and most of them signed with other clubs.
[2] Their home court was Astoria Armory.