Kevin Garnett and the Minnesota Timberwolves

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Established ahead of the 1989-1990 NBA season, the Minnesota Timberwolves are one of the youngest teams in professional basketball. Entering the 1995-1996 season the team had failed to record more than 29 wins in a year. Selecting forward Kevin Garnett fifth overall in the 1995 draft, however, would prove to reverse the team’s fortunes almost immediately. After a solid rookie season, Garnett started all 77 of the games he played in the 1996-1997 season, leading the team to a 40-42 record and earning the franchise its first ever post-season appearance. The team made the playoffs for the next seven seasons and in 2004 reached the Western Conference Finals.

Garnett consistently averaged a minimum of 20 points and 10 rebounds per game during this span of success. He represented the Western Conference as an All Star seven times and, in 2004, ws named League MVP. Garnett’s game continued to evolve offensively as he led the league in rebounding between 2003 and 2007. The Timberwolves, however, failed to reach the playoffs again after their Western Conference Finals appearance.

In the summer of 2007, Garnett was traded to the Boston Celtics. That season he was named Defensive Player of the Year and, less than a year after ending a 12-season run with the Timberwolves, he became an NBA champion. In February of 2015, having played six seasons with the Celtics and about 18 months with the Brooklyn Nets, Garnett was traded back to the Minnesota Timberwolves.