Home venues in Ticket Timeline's game data
The Minnesota Timberwolves joined the NBA in 1989 as one of four expansion franchises that debuted that year—alongside the Orlando Magic, Charlotte Hornets, and Miami Heat—beginning play in the 1989–90 season. Target Center, the arena built to be the team's permanent home, was still under construction when that first season tipped off, so the Timberwolves played their inaugural 1989–90 campaign at the Metrodome, the Twin Cities' shared multi-purpose stadium also used by MLB's Twins and the NFL's Vikings. Target Center opened in downtown Minneapolis in October 1990, and the Timberwolves have played every home game there ever since—one of the few NBA franchises whose entire arena history, outside that single transitional season, is contained in a single building.
- Temporary first-season home: Metrodome (1989–1990) — shared multi-purpose stadium used while Target Center was under construction
- Current home: Target Center (1990–present) — opened October 1990, the Timberwolves' only true arena
Ticket Timeline's game data covers Timberwolves home games at Target Center from the arena's October 1990 opening forward, with gaps where source rows do not connect continuously; the franchise's full history dates back to the 1989–90 expansion season at the Metrodome.
If your ticket says Target Center, that's the Timberwolves' one and only permanent home—there's no renamed or relocated building to sort out, just three-plus decades under one roof.
Minnesota Timberwolves play home games at Target Center in Minneapolis, MN, USA. Dates for those nights are anchored in Minneapolis time. The building list above is what Ticket Timeline uses when an older ticket names the franchise's brief temporary home.