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The Minnesota Timberwolves are a National Basketball Association franchise based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The team is currently owned by Glen Taylor and they play all their home games at the Target Center. The team's most successful season has been the 2003-2004 NBA season which... yielded Kevin Garnett as the MVP for that year and also helped lead the team to eight consecutive playoff berths. NBA basketball returned to the Twin Cities in 1989 for the first time since the Minneapolis Lakers departed for Los Angeles in 1960 when the NBA granted one of its four new expansion teams to original owners Marv Wolfenson and Harvey Ratner to begin play for the 1989–90 season. They received the name "Timberwolves" as the result of a "Name that team" contest. Minnesota is home to the largest population of timberwolves in the lower 48 states . The Timberwolves debuted on November 3, 1989 losing to the Seattle SuperSonics on the road 106–94.
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The University of California, Los Angeles is a public research university located in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States. It was founded in 1919 and is the second oldest of the ten campuses affiliated with the University of California system. UCLA offers over 300... undergraduate and graduate degree programs in a wide range of disciplines and enrolls about 26,000 undergraduate and about 11,000 graduate students from the United States and around the world every year. UCLA is organized into five undergraduate colleges, seven professional schools, and five professional Health Science schools. Eleven Nobel laureates have been affiliated with the university as faculty, researchers, or alumni, 37 have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, 20 to the National Academy of Engineering, and 97 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. UCLA has more applicants than any other university in the United States. Out of 55,676 undergraduate applicants for Fall 2009, 12,098 were admitted, the lowest acceptance rate in the UC system.
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Pasadena is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Famous for hosting the annual Rose Bowl football game and Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena is the home of many leading scientific and cultural institutions, including the California Institute of Technology , Pasadena City... College , NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory , Art Center College of Design, the Pasadena Playhouse, California School of Culinary Arts Pasadena, the Norton Simon Museum of Art and the Pacific Asia Museum. As of 2009, the estimated population of Pasadena is 143,667, making it the 168th largest city in the United States. Pasadena is the seventh largest city in Los Angeles County, and the main cultural center of the San Gabriel Valley. It is the setting of TV shows including Brothers & Sisters and The Big Bang Theory. Pasadena is located at 34°9′22″N 118°7′55″W / 34.15611°N 118.13194°W / 34.15611; -118.13194 . The elevation at city hall is 864 feet above sea level. The greater Pasadena area is bounded by the Raymond Fault line, the San Rafael Hills, and the San Gabriel Mountains.
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