High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Although Portland, Oregon, United States, has only one major league sports team (the Trail Blazers of the NBA), it hosts a wide variety of sports and sporting events. Portland's first professional sports team was the Portland Rosebuds. Not only were the Rosebuds the first professional sports team in Oregon, they were the first professional hockey team in the U.S. They joined the Pacific Coast Hockey Association in 1914. They were the first U.S. team to play for the Stanley Cup (in 1916, against the Montreal Canadiens).