TIMBERWOLVES ANNOUNCE 2025-26 REGULAR SEASON SCHEDULE

Minneapolis/St. Paul – The Minnesota Timberwolves today announced the team will begin their 2025-26 regular season on the road in Portland against the Trail Blazers on Wednesday, Oct. 22 at 9:00 p.m. CT. This is the first time in team history the Timberwolves have begun a season on the road against the Trail Blazers and second time opening the season against Portland (Nov. 2, 2005 at Target Center). Minnesota will open its home portion of the 2025-26 regular season on Sunday, Oct. 26 at 6:00 p.m. CT versus the Eastern Conference Champion Indiana Pacers. Minnesota’s 80-game regular season schedule is available for download here. The remaining two games that do not appear in the regular season schedule will be played the week of Dec. 9-16. Those two games will be released following the conclusion of the Group Stage games and the Quarterfinals of the Emirates NBA Cup 2025.

Other highlights of the team’s home slate include:

• Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and the defending NBA Champion Oklahoma City Thunder on Friday, Dec. 19 at 8:30 p.m. on Prime and Thursday, Jan. 29 at 8:30 p.m. on Prime.
• Luka Dončić, LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers make their lone visit to Target Center on Wednesday, Oct. 29 at 8:30 p.m. on ESPN.
• Stephen Curry and the Golden State Warriors on Saturday, Jan. 24 at 4:30 p.m. on ABC and Monday, Jan. 26 at 8:30 p.m. on Peacock.
• Jalen Brunson, Karl-Anthony Towns and the New York Knicks on Tuesday, Dec. 23 at 7:00 p.m.

The home portion of the regular season schedule features three season-long four-game homestands. The first is from Nov. 14-19 with games against the Sacramento Kings, Denver Nuggets, Dallas Mavericks and Washington Wizards. The second four-game homestand takes place from Dec. 17-23 against the Memphis Grizzlies, Thunder, Milwaukee Bucks and Knicks. The final four-game homestand of the season is from Feb. 6-11 with games against the New Orleans Pelicans, LA Clippers, Atlanta Hawks and Portland Trail Blazers.

This season’s schedule features three season-long road trips of four games with the first four-game road trip from Dec. 29-Jan. 4 against the Chicago Bulls, Hawks, Miami Heat and Wizards. The second four-game road swing is from Jan. 13-20 with Minnesota traveling to face the Bucks, Houston Rockets, San Antonio Spurs and Utah Jazz. The final four-game road trip of the season is from March 10-15 with the Wolves squaring off against the Clippers, Lakers, Warriors and Thunder.

Fans can lock in single-game tickets for the 2025-26 season by registering for priority access to single-game tickets by downloading the updated Timberwolves app and logging in to their account. Five-game Flex Plans go on sale to the general public Monday, Aug. 18 at 11:00 a.m. by visiting the Timberwolves app, timberwolves.com/flex or by phone at 612-673-1234.

Following are key facts about the Wolves’ 2025-26 regular season schedule:

Key Facts About the Timberwolves 2025-26 Schedule

• Minnesota will be featured on 28 nationally televised games, including seven on ESPN (Wednesday, Oct. 29 vs. Lakers, Wednesday, Nov. 5 at Knicks, Wednesday, Nov. 26 at Thunder, Friday, Jan. 16 at Rockets, Sunday, Feb. 8 vs. Clippers, Friday, Feb. 20 vs. Mavericks and Wednesday, March 25 vs. Rockets), seven on Prime (Friday, Oct. 24 at Lakers, Friday, Dec. 19 vs. Thunder, Saturday, Jan. 10 at Cleveland Cavaliers, Thursday, Jan. 29 vs. Thunder, Thursday, Feb. 26 at Clippers, Saturday, March 7 vs. Orlando Magic and Friday, March 13 at Warriors), six on NBC (Tuesday, Jan. 6 vs. Heat, Tuesday, Jan. 13 at Bucks, Tuesday, Feb. 24 at Trail Blazers, Tuesday, March 10 at Lakers, Sunday, March 22 at Boston Celtics and Tuesday, April 7 at Pacers), four on ABC (Thursday, Dec. 25 at Nuggets, Saturday, Jan. 24 vs. Warriors, Sunday, March 1 at Nuggets and Sunday, March 15 at Thunder), four on Peacock (Monday, Oct. 27 vs. Nuggets, Monday, Nov. 3 at Brooklyn Nets, Monday, Jan. 26 vs. Warriors and Monday, Feb. 2 at Memphis Grizzlies).
• The Wolves will be featured on ESPN Radio three times during the 2025-26 season (Wednesday, Nov. 26 at Thunder, Sunday, March 1 at Nuggets and Sunday, March 15 at Thunder).
• The Emirates NBA Cup 2025 will tip off on Friday, Oct. 31 in NBA team markets and culminate in Las Vegas with the Semifinals on Saturday, Dec. 13 and the Championship on Tuesday, Dec. 16. Minnesota will play four Group Play games as part of the Emirates NBA Cup 2025 beginning at Target Center against Lauri Markkanen and the Jazz on Friday, Nov. 7 at 7:00 p.m. West Group A consists of the Timberwolves, Thunder, Phoenix Suns, Kings and Jazz.
• The Timberwolves have won nine straight home openers and 12 of their last 13 dating back to the 2013-14 season.
• Minnesota will play on Christmas Day against the Nuggets on Thursday, Dec. 25 at 9:30 p.m., the second straight season and fourth time in franchise history the team will play on Christmas Day. Last season the Wolves defeated the Mavericks 105-99. The Timberwolves are 2-1 all-time on Christmas Day.
• The All-Star Break is scheduled to be from Feb. 13-18 with this year’s All-Star Weekend to be held at the Intuit Dome in Los Angeles from Feb. 13-15.
• By month, the schedule breaks down as follows: Oct. (3 home, 2 away = 5 total), Nov. (7 home, 8 away = 15 total), Dec. (7 home, 5 away = 12 total), Jan. (7 home, 9 away = 16 total), Feb. (6 home, 4 away = 10 total), March (8 home, 7 away = 15 total), April (2 home, 5 away = 7 total).
• By day, the schedule breaks down as follows: Monday (5 home, 6 away = 11 total), Tuesday (4 home, 6 away = 10 total), Wednesday (6 home, 8 away = 14 total), Thursday (4 home, 4 away = 8 total), Friday (6 home, 6 away = 12 total), Saturday (7 home, 5 away = 12 total), Sunday (8 home, 5 away = 13 total).
• The Wolves will play 13 back-to-backs this season: five home-home, six away-away and two away-home. Last year, Minnesota had 14 back-to-back sets.

Minnesota will have four sets where they play the same opponent in consecutive games: Dec. 2 and 4 at Pelicans, Jan. 8 vs. Cavaliers and Jan. 10 at Cavaliers, Jan. 24 and 26 vs. Warriors and 31 and Feb. 2 at Grizzlies.