Key Wolves Rockets Matchups

With the Houston Rockets coming to the Target Center, look for these key matchups on the court:

Point guard: Kyle Lowry vs Ricky Rubio
Advantage? Rockets

Shooting guard: Courtney Lee vs Luke Ridnour
Advantage? Rockets

Forward: Chandler Parsons vs Wesley Johnson
Advantage? Wolves

Forward: Luis Scola vs Kevin Love
Advantage? Wolves

Center: Samuel Dalembert vs Nikola Pekovic
Advantage? Rockets

Who will come out on top? It appears, according to me rough estimates, the Rockets are holding the advantage over the Wolves' starting five. However, I think with Adelman's experience with Houston, the Wolves will take the win. Wolves 99-94.

Minneapolis Target Center Nickelback tickets

The Minneapolis Target Center will host Nickelback along with Bush, Seether & My Darkest Days on Wednesday, May 23, 2012! There are a variety of pre-sales going on the week of January16-20 and the onsale is on Saturday January 21, 2012.

You're sure to have a great Minneapolis concert experience at this concert, with all of these great bands touring together! You'll really get your money's worth, seeing four bands for the price of one!

If you aren't sure how to work a presale, or don't want to bother with buying tickets right when they go on sale, you can check out www.webtixxs.com and buy your Nickelback concert tickets there!

Minnesota Timberwolves 2012 standings

The season just started a few weeks ago, but the current Minnesota Timberwolves standings are not the best, but it's been excellent having professional basketball back in the Twins Cities (and nation wide!)The Timberwolves have played six games, with two wins and four loses. There are a lot of games ahead of us and I am excited to see where we can go with the season!

The Timberwolves seem to always have a game at home in this packed and accelerated 2012 NBA season.

Timberwolves vs. Cavaliers Friday January 6 7pm
Timberwolves vs. Bulls Tuesday January 10 7pm
Timberwolves vs. Kings Monday January 16 7pm
Timberwolves vs. Pistons Wednesday January 18 7pm
Timberwolves vs. Rockets Monday January 23 7pm
Timberwolves vs. Spurs Friday January 27 7pm
Timberwolves vs. Lakers Sunday January 29 6pm

That rounds out the Minnesota Timberwolves January home game schedule! If you haven't gone to a game yet this year, what are you waiting for!? Get a great deal on excellent Timberwolves tickets!

Sesame Street Live: Elmo Makes Music Minneapolis Target Center

The Minneapolis Target Center will host Sesame Street Live: Elmo Makes Music from Wednesday January 11, 2012 through Sunday January 15, 2012. There are a total of ten shows ranging in time from 10:30 a.m. until 7 p.m. There is sure to be a time that will work for you and your little ones!

Did you know that Sesame Street Live: Elmo Makes Music has a Play Zone!? Open one hour prior to the show time, anyone with a Sesame Street Live ticket can experience Sesame Street--sit in Big Bird's nest, check out Oscar's garbage can and more! You won't want to miss the chance of getting your kids on stage, right in the midst of Sesame Street!

Don't miss this opportunity, get your Sesame Street loving kid Elmo Makes Music tickets now! www.Webtixxs.com still has Sesame Street Live tickets available for select dates and times for the Elmo Makes Music tour at the Target Center!

Timberwolves vs Bucks tickets 12/17/11

There are still tickets available for the first preseason game of the NBA 2011-2012 season in Minnesota.

The Minnesota Timberwolves host the Milwaukee Bucks tomorrow, Saturday December 17, 2011. It's been a long time coming since the NBA season was put on a lock-out! The time is here to welcome back our Timberwolves players!

Buy your Wolves Bucks tickets now to show the Timberwolves players how much we've missed them! Let's show the Minnesota Timberwolves a full-house! Wolves tickets for the preseason game at starting as low as $3/ticket, which is BELOW cost! That is a very cheap Timberwolves ticket! Don't miss out on this chance for a cheap date night in Minneapolis! There is sure to be a lot of excitement to view the first game of the NBA season after the NBA Lockout!

You can contact Ticket King at 612-341-4131 to buy your Wolves tickets.

Minnesota Timberwolves 2011-2012 basketball schedule

Alright! Now that we know the 2011-2012 NBA season is happening, let's look at what we can expect for our very own Minnesota Timberwolves!

The Minnesota Timberwolves have the first home game on Saturday, December 17th. This is a preseason game against the Milwaukee Bucks!

The regular season starts on Monday, December 26th against the Oklahoma City Thunder.

Following is the fullMinnesota Timberwolves 2012 home regular season schedule:

Date	Opponent	Time
Dec. 26	Oklahoma City	8:00
Dec. 27	at Milwaukee	8:30
Dec. 30	Miami	8:00
Jan. 1	Dallas	7:00
Jan. 2	San Antonio	8:00
Jan. 4	Memphis	8:00
Jan. 6	Cleveland	8:00
Jan. 8	at Washington	1:00
Jan. 9	at Toronto	7:00
Jan. 10	Chicago	8:00
Jan. 13	at New Orleans	8:00
Jan. 14	at Atlanta	7:00
Jan. 16	Sacramento	8:00
Jan. 18	Detroit	8:00
Jan. 20	at Los Angeles	10:30
Jan. 21	at Utah	9:00
Jan. 23	Houston	8:00
Jan. 25	at Dallas	8:30
Jan. 27	San Antonio	8:00
Jan. 29	Los Angeles	7:00
Jan. 30	at Houston	8:00

Date	Opponent	Time
Feb. 1	Indiana	8:00
Feb. 3	at New Jersey	7:30
Feb. 4	Houston	8:00
Feb. 7	Sacramento	8:00
Feb. 8	at Memphis	8:00
Feb. 10	Dallas	8:00
Feb. 11	New York	8:00
Feb. 13	at Orlando	7:00
Feb. 15	Charlotte	8:00
Feb. 17	at Houston	8:00
Feb. 19	Philadelphia	7:00
Feb. 20	at Denver	9:00
Feb. 22	Utah	8:00
Feb. 28	at Los Angeles	10:30
Feb. 29	at Los Angeles	10:30
Mar. 1	at Phoenix	9:00
Mar. 3	at Portland	10:00
Mar. 5	Los Angeles	8:00
Mar. 7	Portland	8:00
Mar. 9	Los Angeles	8:00
Mar. 10	New Orleans	8:00

Date	Opponent	Time
Mar. 12	at Phoenix	10:00
Mar. 15	at Utah	9:00
Mar. 16	at Los Angeles	10:30
Mar. 18	at Sacramento	6:00
Mar. 19	at Golden State	10:30
Mar. 21	at San Antonio	8:30
Mar. 23	at Oklahoma City	8:00
Mar. 25	Denver	3:30
Mar. 27	at Memphis	8:00
Mar. 28	at Charlotte	7:00
Mar. 30	Boston	8:00
Apr. 1	at Portland	9:00
Apr. 2	at Sacramento	10:00
Apr. 4	Golden State	8:00
Apr. 7	at New Orleans	8:00
Apr. 9	Phoenix	9:00
Apr. 11	at Denver	9:00
Apr. 12	Los Angeles	8:00
Apr. 14	Oklahoma City	8:00
Apr. 16	at Indiana	7:00
Apr. 17	Memphis	8:00

Date	Opponent	Time
Apr. 19	at Detroit	7:30
Apr. 22	Golden State	7:00
Apr. 26	Denver

Ticket King has Minnesota Timberwolves tickets available for EVERY home game!

Welcome back, Wolves!

NBA Lockout 2011 News Update: LOCKOUT IS OVER! NBA 2011 season to take place!

The 2011 NBA Lockout is OVER! It took 149 days of being locked out from playing games, or even entering a training facility, but the NBA Lockout is now over.

What is the new deal that the NBA players and owners agreed to? The deal is for 10 years, although both sides have the option of opting out after six years. The players will make no higher than 51 percent of the revenue, which is down from 57 percent. This difference would account for nearly $3 billion over the length of the deal.

This new deal still is pending final approval of the new collective bargaining agreement (CBA), but a truncated 66-game NBA regular season should be starting on Christmas Day. On Christmas, five NBA games will be played, and televised on TNT, ABC, ESPN, and two others to be announced later.

The 2012 NBA season will extend games to April 26th, 2012, and the NBA Playoffs will begin two days after that. There is a possibility of back-to-back games during the second round of the NBA Playoffs, with each team having at least one, but no more than three back-to-back-to-back games during the regular season.

All NBA teams will play 48 conference games and 18 nonconference games. Teams will not travel to every NBA arena.

December 9th marks the day free agents will be able to begin signing contracts.

Interesting NBA Lockout money fact:

Financial analysts predicted that the shoe industry would lose $500 million if the NBA Lockout had continued and cancelled the entire season! Wow! How many shoes do these guys go through!? That is a crazy amount of shoes!

Ouch, some of the pains of the Lockout are that some players went to play overseas in China, and the Chinese Basketball Association is not showing any inclination to let those NBA players out of their contracts before the end of the season in March! The player that went to play in Spain, Turkey and France are able to come back to play in the NBA season.

Overall, it seems like all is in order for the NBA to start their games soon. We'll see how fans respond. Do you think people will attend games, or do you think fans will be leary at first?