Torn Portland! Trail Blazers home field: the prosperity in the fragrance of roses and the silence of the river tent.

Portland, a small town in the northwest of the United States with an area of only 376.5 square kilometers, is not as large as the Haidian District of Beijing, but its popularity in China has suddenly increased recently.

There is an NBA league team Trail Blazers in this city. They selected Chinese basketball star Yang Hansen at this year's NBA draft. The NBA field embraced Chinese players again, which also attracted more attention from Portland.

Yang Hansen's selection is the second time that Chinese players have entered the NBA through drafts after 9 years. The Chinese basketball industry is celebrating, and the local Chinese in Portland are even more happy like the New Year.

If Yang Hansen had not been selected by the team, many people might not know about this small city. Portland belongs to Oregon because the mild climate has nurtured the world's most rose plantations, also known as "Rose City".

The Trail Blazers' home court, "Moda Center", was also poetically called "Rose Garden Stadium". Today, this venue that has been in operation for 30 years and its carefully planned supporting commercial districts around it still show tenacious vitality.

However, just walk through a street, walk to the Willamette River, or even stand on the high platform in the center of Moda and look out at the Willamette River, the prosperity of the city recedes like a tide.

As far as the eyes are sights, there are many dilapidated old factories and rusty industrial relics, which seem to tell the past of this city and also a witness to the development of this city. Portland, with a population of about 650,000, is also the city with the largest number of parks per capita in the United States. These parks in the city are not only places for people to rest, but also become the "ideal home" for wanderers.

In the Riverside Park, just a hundred meters away from the center of Moda, the mottled tent group takes root here with dazzling roots. This is the shelter of many homeless people in Portland.

As a typical representative of the "Moonlight Clan" culture, this difficult wound in American society has been fully revealed in Portland, a green space that was once rated as the "most livable city" in the United States for many years.

The halo of the city has quietly dimmed since 2019. Just as the Chinese blogger "Zhuzhinian" who lives in Portland once reminded Yang Hansen's team in the video: Do not leave valuables inside when a vehicle stops, because theft of broken windows is common in this city.

Yang Hansen's joining is like a gravel thrown into the lake, making Portland's "double-sidedness" surface more clearly. On one hand, there is the modern glamor of the top professional league stadium and the boiling hope brought by the rising stars of basketball, and on the other hand, there is the survival dilemma reflected by the mottled industrial debris and tent communities.

Moda Center and its riverbank park a hundred meters away jointly outline the irreconcilable A-B surface of Portland - the sea water and flames meet here, reflecting each other, but it is difficult to blend together.

When Yang Hansen first set foot on the home court of the NBA regular season here, the fans who cheered him shared the same sky with the homeless people in the tent a hundred meters away.

This is perhaps the most moving contradiction in Portland.