{"id":205955,"date":"2025-07-31T22:12:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T22:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/205955\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T22:12:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T22:12:10","slug":"timberwolves-bring-back-fan-favorite-uniform-tease-full-rebrand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/205955\/","title":{"rendered":"Timberwolves Bring Back Fan Favorite Uniform; Tease Full Rebrand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"788\" height=\"444\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/NBA-Minnesota-Timberwolves-at-Boston-Celtics-9010550-scaled-e1753998321859.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium tpd-force-16x9-aspect-ratio wp-post-image\" alt=\"Kevin Garnett - Minnesota Timberwolves at Boston Celtics\" decoding=\"sync\" loading=\"eager\"   fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Credit: Bob DeChiara-Imagn Images\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The Minnesota Timberwolves are entering a new era, under new owners Marc Lore and Alex Rodriguez. On the court, it doesn\u2019t look like there will be a whole lot of change, after president of basketball operations Tim Connelly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.minnesotasportsfan.com\/minnesota-timberwolves\/offseason-grade-b-naz-reid-julius-randle\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">decided to mostly run things back<\/a> this offseason, re-upping on Naz Reid and Julius Randle.<\/p>\n<p>Off the court, however, Lore and A-Rod want to make bigger changes. They\u2019ve announced a new ticket market app that will debut next season, but that is only the beginning. It\u2019s well known how badly the new owners want to build a new arena in downtown Minneapolis, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.minnesotasportsfan.com\/minnesota-timberwolves\/new-arena-top-priority-private-vs-public-funding\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">even if they have to finance it themselves<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota Timberwolves back in Garnett era black<\/p>\n<p>But when they eventually find their new digs, the Wolves could look different. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/esidery\" rel=\"nofollow\">Evan Sidery (Forbes)<\/a>, the Minnesota Timberwolves are bringing back their black Garnett era uniforms, with pointed letters and mini pine tree outline. There\u2019s also \u201cloud buzz\u201d over a full rebrand in the near future. <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Timberwolves are restoring their classic retro black uniforms from the Kevin Garnett era beginning next season.<\/p>\n<p>There is also loud buzz growing around a potential logo rebrand for Minnesota coming in the next few years. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bD6ZwCg7cO\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/bD6ZwCg7cO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Evan Sidery (@esidery) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/esidery\/status\/1951025240202514669?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 31, 2025<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>These beautiful black uniforms were the franchise\u2019s first ever alternate jersey combination. They originally wore them from 1998-2008, before they were put into retirement.<\/p>\n<p>They were dusted off again for a short time in 2017-18, as part of the league\u2019s throwback alternate series. We don\u2019t know how much we\u2019ll see them next season, but I\u2019m sure glad they\u2019re back.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I&#8217;d like to thank Derrick Rose for choosing 90s throwback uniform night to drop that performance on us, the best uniforms the T-Wolves ever wore. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GlY1ohB8IM\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/GlY1ohB8IM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SportsLogos.net (@sportslogosnet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sportslogosnet\/status\/1057995967985664000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">November 1, 2018<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.minnesotasportsfan.com\/minnesota-timberwolves\/plan-for-kevin-garnett-return-other-alumni\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A-Rod, Lore Trying to Bring KG Home\u2026 Among Other Former Timberwolves\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There have been four rebrands in Minnesota Timberwolves history. They wore the \u201cOld Shep\u201d blue and white (w\/light green outline) from their inception in 1989, through the 1995-96 season, before taking on a much bolder look, which included the black alternate uniforms pictured above.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ve had their current logo\/uniform combination since 2016-17 and they are long overdue for a rebrand, because they haven\u2019t been able to get things right since they they ditched the Garnett era jerseys back in 2008-09, shortly after trading him away.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"788\" height=\"497\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-31-163615-788x497.png\" alt=\"minnesota timberwolves logo history\" class=\"wp-image-65816\"  \/>Credit: SportsLogos.net<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMentioned in this article: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.minnesotasportsfan.com\/tag\/alternate-uniforms\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alternate uniforms<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.minnesotasportsfan.com\/tag\/logo\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">logo<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"categories\">More About:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.minnesotasportsfan.com\/category\/minnesota-timberwolves\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Timberwolves<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Credit: Bob DeChiara-Imagn Images The Minnesota Timberwolves are entering a new era, under new owners Marc Lore and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3782],"tags":[36463,7,12119,307,152,3954,6,308],"class_list":{"0":"post-205955","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-timberwolves","8":"tag-alternate-uniforms","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-logo","11":"tag-minnesota","12":"tag-minnesota-timberwolves","13":"tag-minnesotatimberwolves","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-timberwolves"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114950146935250796","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}