18
Active Players
5
Franchise Legends
0
No championships yet
2
2 Division Titles
No championships yet
The players who defined Minnesota Timberwolves basketball. Icons who shaped the franchise and left a legacy that endures.
Numbers hanging in the rafters at Target Center. The players who gave everything to Minnesota Timberwolves.
The Minnesota Timberwolves joined the NBA as an expansion team in 1989. Kevin Garnett, drafted 5th overall in 1995 straight from high school, became the franchise's greatest player and led the Wolves to eight consecutive playoff appearances and the 2004 Western Conference Finals during his MVP season. After Garnett's trade to Boston in 2007, the franchise endured a lengthy rebuild. The acquisition of Karl-Anthony Towns in 2015 and later Anthony Edwards in 2020 began a new chapter. Edwards — one of the most electrifying young stars in the NBA — led Minnesota to the 2024 Western Conference Finals, their deepest playoff run in 20 years, signaling the franchise's arrival as a legitimate championship contender.
Malik Sealy's #2 is retired by the Minnesota Timberwolves as a memorial to the beloved guard who died in a car accident in May 2000, thirty years old and entering the prime of his career.
Conference
Western
Division
Northwest
Home Arena
Target Center
Founded
1989
Mascot
Crunch the Wolf
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