Michael Tuckman: Continental Basketball Association, Great Falls Explorers, Minot SkyRockets, Bellevue Blackhawks

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Michael William Tuckman is the current president of West Coast Sports, LLC, and present owner of the Continental Basketball Association (CBA) team Great Falls Explorers. The Explorers were purchased in November 2007 from Apex Sportstainment, present owners of the Minot SkyRockets. West Coast Sports also hold expansion rights to the Vancouver Dragons. Tuckman previously owned the Bellevue Blackhawks and Tacoma Navigators of the American Basketball Association. In 2005, he was named 2004-05 ABA Executive of the Year the same season his Blackhawks played in the ABA championship game only to lose to the Arkansas RimRockers in front of 15,000 fans at Alltel Arena in North Little Rock, Arkansas, the largest crowd ever to attend an ABA game. As CEO of Puget Sound Sports and Entertainment, LLC (PSSE) from 2000-2007 Tuckman developed and proposed sports arena projects in Bellevue, Renton, Tacoma, and Olympia, totalling more than $300 million from March 2000-2006.