The Minnesota Timberwolves The Minnosota Timberwolves joined the National Basketball Association for the 1989-90 season as a part of a two phase leuge expansion. Teams that also were part of this expansionwere the Orlando Magic, the Miami Heat, and the Chorolette hornets.(Walter 1) Two local buisness men Harvey Rutner , who were boy hood friends, brought professionalbasketball back to the Twin cities by purchasing the Minnosota Timberwolves. They made therefourtune in in health club chains and in real estate. They made offers to buy other professionalteams before purchasing the Timberwolves,but thouse deals fell through.(1) Bill Musselman on August 23, 1988 was named head coach of the Minnosota Timberwolves. Bill Musselman had led the University of Minnosota to a Big Ten conference championship in1971-1972 season. He also had four CBA championship teams in a row.(1) The Minnosota Timberwolves were not however the first professional team in the NBA. TheMinneopolis Lakers of the early 1950s were a dominant team of that era. The team was led byGeorge Mikan who was one of the NBAs first great center. The Minneoplis Lakers soon aftertheir great success moved and became the L.A. Lakers.(1) The Minnosotta Timberwolves made their NBA debute on November 3, 1989 playing againstthe Seatle Supersonics at Seatle. The starting line up for the Timberwolves on this day was SamMichell, Todd Murphy, Brad Lohaus, Tony Campbell, and Sidney Lowe. Sam Michell scored LeFevre 2the first 2 points in club history on a pair of free throws and he also scored the first feild goal afew minutes later in the game. They Timberwolves later went on to lose this game at a finalscore of 106 to 94.(1) In December of their first season they opened on a high note defeating by 27 pointsCleavland. Then their momentum slowed down and lost nine consecutave games. Althoughthey were losing their games they had a tight defence and were ranked ...
