(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); 1989 1990 1994 2008 2014 Minnesota Timberwolves Team Formation NBA basketball returned to the Twin Cities in 1989 for the first time since the Minneapolis Lakers departed for Los Angeles in 1960. The NBA had granted one of its four new expansion teams on April 22, 1987 (the others being the Orlando Magic, Charlotte Hornets, …