{"id":205629,"date":"2025-11-16T03:07:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T08:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/11\/16\/timberwolves-bring-back-prince-inspired-jerseys-with-new-purple-court\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T03:07:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T08:07:05","slug":"timberwolves-bring-back-prince-inspired-jerseys-with-new-purple-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/11\/16\/timberwolves-bring-back-prince-inspired-jerseys-with-new-purple-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Timberwolves Bring Back Prince-Inspired Jerseys With New Purple\u00a0Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- no image --><\/p>\n<div><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NBA\/status\/1989881264149614670\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Timberwolves<\/a> brought back their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/prince\/\">Prince<\/a>-inspired City Edition uniforms for the first time this season during Saturday\u2019s (Nov. 15) home game against the Denver Nuggets, debuting a matching on-court design and arena programming that paid tribute to the Minneapolis icon. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe return of the purple uniforms also marked the first time the team has paired the jerseys with a Purple Rain-inspired decal at center court inside Target Center.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Timberwolves honoring the late legend Prince with their City Edition uniforms and court tonight!<\/p>\n<p>All in the details \ud83d\udc40<\/p>\n<p>Watch on NBA League Pass: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wDXqPzcHiR\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/wDXqPzcHiR<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/U2WXhgqONC\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/U2WXhgqONC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA (@NBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA\/status\/1989881264149614670?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">November 16, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe Wolves originally introduced the Prince-themed look during the 2018\u201319 NBA season in collaboration with the Prince Estate and Nike, a partnership that returned for the 2025\u201326 campaign. The updated uniforms feature a paisley pattern over the right shoulder in reference to Prince\u2019s <em>Purple Rain<\/em> jacket, while the \u201cMPLS\u201d lettering on the shorts nods to the artist\u2019s close ties to the Minneapolis sound and the Twin Cities community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tInside the arena, fans were greeted with a full Prince-themed presentation. \u201cWhen Doves Cry\u201d played ahead of tip-off, arena lighting cues shifted to purple, and the Wolves incorporated additional visual tributes throughout the home-game experience. The team also rolled out a Purple Rain-inspired motif on the court, expanding the tribute beyond uniforms and into event production for the first time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe organization previously announced that the Prince-inspired uniforms would appear seven times during the season, with Saturday\u2019s matchup against Denver marking their first outing. Additional theme nights will follow throughout the regular season, including a December home game against the Oklahoma City Thunder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tOver his career, Prince earned five No. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100, including \u201cWhen Doves Cry,\u201d \u201cKiss,\u201d \u201cLet\u2019s Go Crazy,\u201d and \u201cCream.\u201d His landmark 1984 album <em>Purple Rain<\/em> spent 24 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, while 19 of his albums have reached the top 10. Following his passing in 2016, Prince became the first artist to simultaneously occupy the entire top 10 of the Billboard Digital Songs chart.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/music-news\/prince-tribute-timberwolves-jersey-1236114477\/\">Aller \u00e0 la source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota Timberwolves brought back their Prince-inspired City Edition uniforms for the first time this season during Saturday\u2019s (Nov. 15) home game against the Denver Nuggets, debuting a matching on-court design and arena programming that paid tribute to the Minneapolis icon. The return of the purple uniforms also marked the first time the team has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musique","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}