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A Home Like No Other: Looking Back At The Wolves’ Inaugural Metrodome Season

The Wolves’ 1989-90 season was the stuff of legend. Not only was it the franchise’s inaugural season and the triumphant return of professional basketball to Minnesota, but the entire season was played in one of the most iconic and strange basketball venues in state history—the Metrodome.

The Metrodome was unlike any other NBA home court. It had a capacity of 50,000 people for basketball games, making it the largest venue in the NBA. The Wolves’ current home in Target Center, by contrast, holds just under 20,000.

That one year the Wolves played in the Metrodome before moving to Target Center had its fair share of high notes.