2025–26 Minnesota Timberwolves season

The 2025–26 Minnesota Timberwolves season will be the 37th season for the franchise in the National Basketball Association (NBA). It was also the first season of the Timberwolves being owned by Marc Lore and former Major League Baseball star player Alex Rodriguez following ownership conflicts relating to previous team owner Glen Taylor, with a unanimous ownership change being approved by the NBA on June 24, 2025.^[1]

Round	Pick	Player	Position(s)	Nationality	College / Club
1	17	Joan Beringer	Center	France	Cedevita Olimpija (Slovenia)
2	31	Rasheer Fleming	Power Forward	United States	Saint Joseph's

The Timberwolves entered this draft period (which lasted for two days, similar to the previous year's draft) with one first-round selection and one early second-round selection that the Timberwolves acquired in a three-team trade with the Utah Jazz and Los Angeles Lakers.^[2][3]

^ I: The 2026 second-round pick that originally would be going to Phoenix before sent to the Minnesota Timberwolves in the seven-team mega-trade would either be the lesser 2026 NBA draft selection previously held by the Denver Nuggets due to a previous trade the Suns made with Charlotte earlier in the year back in their previous season of play or by the Golden State Warriors through multiple trades on their end.
^ II: The 2032 second-round pick that would be sent to Minnesota will be the selection that's considered the higher selection between Houston and Phoenix, while the Suns would keep the lesser of the second-round picks between the Rockets and Timberwolves. As such, if the Suns have a worse record by 2032 than Houston, the trade would effectively be the Suns getting the worst selection between the Timberwolves and Rockets, while Houston sends out the Suns' second-round pick that year out to Minnesota alongside the Timberwolves keeping the remaining second-round pick of the three teams instead. However, if the Rockets hold a better record than the Suns by 2032, then Houston would send Phoenix's second-round pick either right back to the Suns or out to the Timberwolves (depending on which team between them had the better overall record by that year), while Minnesota would have both of the remaining second-round picks between the three teams instead.
^ III: Due to another trade the Brooklyn Nets made with the Memphis Grizzlies (thus making the transaction more complex to cover efficiently due to the amount of previous trades involved before this one (including a previous deal involving the Suns, funnily enough)), the Nets will receive either the Los Angeles Clippers' own 2026 second-round pick without any stipulations involved with it or one of the second-round picks that was originally held by either the Boston Celtics, Indiana Pacers, or Miami Heat, depending on which option is the least favorable amongst the four teams for this season of play.
^ IV: Due to multiple trades that involved the Houston Rockets before the massive deal that the Suns made, the Rockets will give Phoenix the middle-valued draft pick in the 2026 NBA draft (with the defending champion Oklahoma City Thunder getting the most valuable of the upcoming selections and the San Antonio Spurs getting the least valuable of the upcoming selections by a different trade involving them) between the Dallas Mavericks, the defending-champion Oklahoma City Thunder, and the Philadelphia 76ers.