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See: Music of Tennessee. The Timberwolves finished 44-38, and missed the playoffs for the first time in eight years. See: Tennessee State Flag. Coach Flip Saunders was replaced in midseason by GM Kevin McHale, who took over the team for the rest of the season. See the List of famous Tennesseans and the List of Governors of Tennessee. The team was plagued with contract disputes and the complaining of key players Latrell Sprewell, Sam Cassell, and Troy Hudson.
. In the 2004-05 season, the Wolves kept the same team from the previous season.

Tennessee cities' claims to fame are:. Kevin Garnett finally earned his first MVP award with 24.2 points per game and 13.9 rebounds per game. As of 2000, the population is 5,689,283. They finished as the season as the top seed in the Western Conference with a record of 58-24, and beat the Denver Nuggets and Sacramento Kings in the first two rounds of the NBA playoffs before losing to the Lakers in the Western Conference finals. The three towns of Bristol, Kingsport, and Johnson City make up a fifth significant population center, often called the "Tri-Cities", in the far northeast of the state. During the 2003-04 NBA season, the Timberwolves became the team everyone wanted to beat. Chattanooga and Knoxville, both in the eastern part of the state near the Great Smoky Mountains, have approximately a third of Memphis or Nashville's population. In 2003, the Timberwolves made two stunning offseason moves, trading away forward Joe Smith and injured guard Terrell Brandon in a multi-player deal for Ervin Johnson, Sam Cassell and embattled guard Latrell Sprewell.

Memphis has the largest population of any city in the state, but Nashville has a slightly larger metropolitan area. However, the Lakers came back to win the game on the way to winning the series in six games, as the Timberwolves were eliminated in the first round for the 7th straight year. The capital is Nashville. After being blown out at home in Game 1 the Timberwolves had a chance to take a 3-1 series lead as they led heading into the 4th quarter of Game 4 in Los Angeles. The three largest Protestant denominations in Tennessee are: Baptist (43% of the total state population), Methodist (11%), Churches of Christ (5%). With home court advantage for the first time facing the three-time defending champion Los Angeles Lakers. The religious affiliations of the citizens of Tennessee are:. 2002-2003 seemed to look up for the Wolves. Kevin Garnett had a great season, finishing 2nd in MVP voting while averaging a solid 23.0 ppg and 13.4 rebounds per game as the Timberwolves finish in 3rd place with a 51-31 record.

Females made up approximately 51.3% of the population. However, in the playoffs the Wolves were eliminated in the first round again by the San Antonio Spurs in 4 games in the spring of 2001. 6.6% of Tennessee's population were reported as under 5, 24.6% under 18, and 12.4% were 65 or older. Despite the trouble the Wolves made the playoffs for the 5th straight season with a 47-35 record. The 5 largest ancestry groups in Tennessee are American (17.5%), African American (16.4%), Irish (9.3%), English (9.1%), German (8.3%). They stripped the T-Wolves of three draft picks, fined them $3.5 million and suspended general manager Kevin McHale for one year. The racial makeup of the state is:. Also in that season, a free agent deal signed by Joe Smith was voided by the NBA, who ruled that the Timberwolves violated proper procedure in signing the contract.

Census Bureau, as of 2003, Tennessee's population was estimated at 5,841,748 people. Guard Malik Sealy was killed in a car accident in the summer of 2000. According to the U.S. However, in the playoffs the Wolves fell in the first round again losing to the Portland Trail Blazers in 4 games. The overall state tax rate is relatively low, however, as Tennessee does not tax wage and salary income (although it does tax unearned income). Led by Kevin Garnett, who averaged 22.9 ppg and 11.8 rebounds per game, the Timberwolves enjoyed their first 50-win season finishing in 3rd place with a solid record of 50-32. Some cities charge additional taxes, leading to some of the highest sales taxes in the United States. He had a solid season finishing 3rd on the team in scoring with 11.6 ppg.

State sales tax is 7%, while the counties charge an additional 2.25% for a total of 9.25% across Tennessee. In 1999, the Timberwolves drafted Wally Szczerbiak.
. In the playoffs the Timberwolves were beaten by the San Antonio Spurs in 4 games. Total earnings were $167,414,793,000.(BEARFACTS). The Wolves made the playoffs for the 3rd straight season by finishing in 4th place with a 25-25 record. In 2003, the per capita personal income was $28,641, 36th in the nation, and only 91% of the national per capita personal income of $31,472. In the 3-team midseason deal that sent Marbury to the New Jersey Nets the Wolves got Terrell Brandon in return.

Bureau of Economic Analysis, in 2003 Tennessee's Gross State Product was $199,786,000,000, 1.8% of the total Gross Domestic Product. With an already cap heavy payroll the Wolves were forced to let Tom Gugliotta walk away and trade Stephon Marbury fearing both would seek deals similar to Garnett's. According to U.S. In 1998, a year after signing Kevin Garnett to an unprecedented 6-year, $126 million contract, the Timberwolves were used as the poster child of irresponsible spending as the NBA endured a 4-month lockout that wiped out the season. Roughly from west to east, these are:. However, the Wolves dropped Game 4 at home as the Sonics went on to win the series in 5 games. Tennessee features six principal geographic regions. As the series shifted to Minnesota the Timberwolves had an opportunity to pull off the upset as they won Game 3 by a score of 98-90.

The Cumberland Plateau is generally considered the dividing line between East and Middle Tennessee. After dropping Game 1 on the road to the Seattle Supersonics in the playoffs the Timberwolves earned their first postseason win in Game 2 winning in Seattle 98-93. The Tennessee River is generally considered the dividing line between Middle and West Tennessee. Despite losing leading scorer Tom Gugliotta for half the season the Timberwolves went on to post their first winning season at 45-37 making the playoffs for the 2nd straight season. The state of Tennessee is traditionally divided by its people into three grand divisions - East, Middle, and West Tennessee. In 1997 Kevin Garnett and Stephon Marbury established themselves as two of the brightest rising stars in the NBA as Garnett averaged 18.5 ppg while pulling down 9.6 rebounds per game, while Marbury averaged 17.7 ppg, and dished out 8.6 assists per game. The highest point in the state is the peak of Clingmans Dome at 6,643 feet (2,025 meters), which lies on Tennesee's eastern border. However, in the playoffs the Timberwolves made a quick exit as they are swept by the Houston Rockets in 3 straight games.

The state is trisected by the Tennessee River. Gugliotta and Garnett led the Timberwolves in scoring as the team made the playoffs for the first time in franchise history with a record of 40-42. Tennessee is bordered on the north by Kentucky and Virginia, on the east by North Carolina, on the south by Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi, and on the west by Arkansas and Missouri. The addition of Marbury had a positive effect on the entire team, as Kevin Garnett and Tom Gugliotta became the first Wolves to be selected to the All-Star team. Tennessee lies adjacent to 8 other states, matched only by Missouri which also borders 8 states. In addition the T-Wolves found another star player in the draft as they traded with the Milwaukee Bucks for the rights to Stephon Marbury, the 4th overall pick. See also: List of Tennessee counties, List of Tennessee state parks. Garnett went on to average 10.4 ppg in his rookie season as the T-Wolves finished in 5th place with a 26-56 record.

The first was adopted in 1796, the year Tennessee joined the union, and the second was adopted in 1834. Also first round pick Donyell Marshall was traded that season for Golden State Warriors' forward Tom Gugliotta, who was earlier traded himself from Washington for Chris Webber The trade paved the way for rookie Kevin Garnett to become the go-to player inside. The state had two earlier constitutions. Changes were abound for the Timberwolves as Christian Laettner was traded along with Sean Rooks to the Atlanta Hawks for Andrew Lang and Spud Webb. Tennessee's current state constitution was adopted in 1870. In 1995, the Timberwolves selected Kevin Garnett and Flip Saunders became coach. The Court of Criminal Appeals has nine judges. Glen Taylor bought the team and named Kevin McHale general manager.

The Court of Appeals has 12 judges. Over the next several years, the franchise encountered mediocrity and even a near relocation in 1994 before NBA owners rejected the team's move to New Orleans. It has a chief justice and four associate justices. They fired their head coach Bill Musselman. The highest court in Tennessee is the state Supreme Court. The next season the team moved into the Target Center and won 29 games. The General Assembly (the state's legislature) consists of the 33-member Senate and the 99-member House of Representatives. Senators serve four year terms, and House members serve two year terms. Playing in the cavernous Metrodome the expansion Timberwolves drew over 1 million fans including the 3rd largest crowd in NBA history at 49,551 on April 17, 1990 that saw the Timberwolves lose to the Denver Nuggets 99-88 in the final home game of the season.

See:List of Tennessee Governors. The Timberwolves went on to finish with a 22-60 record while finishing in 6th place in the Midwestern Division, as Tony Campbell led the team with 23.2 ppg. The speaker of the state Senate has the title of lieutenant governor. Just two nights later the Wolves would finally got their first win beating the Philadelphia 76ers at home 125-118 on November 10th. Tennessee's governor holds office for a four year term and may serve any number of terms, but not more than two in a row. Five days later they would make their home debut at the Metrodome losing to the Chicago Bulls 96-84. Tennessee celebrated its bicentennial in 1996 after a yearlong statewide celebration entitled "Tennessee 200" by opening a new state park (Bicentennial Mall) at the foot of Capitol Hill in Nashville. The Timberwolves made their debut on November 3, 1989 losing to the Seattle SuperSonics on the road 106-94.

During World War II, Oak Ridge was selected as a US Department of Energy national laboratory, one of the principal sites for the Manhattan Project's production and isolation of weapons-grade fissile material. The Minnesota Timberwolves are a National Basketball Association team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The need to create work for the unemployed during the Depression, the desire for rural electrification, and the desire to control the annual spring floods on the Tennessee River drove the creation of the Tennessee Valley Authority, the nation's largest public utility, in 1933. Wally Szczerbiak. In 1897, the state celebrated its centennial of statehood (albeit one year late) with a great exposition. Latrell Sprewell. Tennessee was the only state that seceded from the Union that did not have a military governor after the American Civil War, mostly due to the influence of President Andrew Johnson, a native of the state, who was Lincoln's vice president and succeeded him as president, due to the assassination. Michael Olowokandi.

After the American Civil War, Tennessee adopted a new constitution that abolished slavery (February 22, 1865), ratified the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution on July 18, 1866, and was the first state readmitted to the Union (July 24 of the same year). Mark Madsen. Tennessee was the last Confederate state to secede from the Union when it did so on June 8, 1861. Ervin Johnson. Tennessee was admitted to the Union in 1796 as the 16th state, and was created by taking the north and south borders of North Carolina and extending them with only one small deviation to the Mississippi River, Tennessee's western boundary. Troy Hudson. This came to be known as the Trail of Tears, as an estimated 4,000 Cherokees died along the way.¹. Eddie Griffin.

From 1838 to 1839, nearly 17,000 Cherokees were forced to march from Eastern Tennessee to Indian Territory west of Arkansas. Kevin Garnett. As European colonists spread into the area, the native populations were forcibly displaced to the south and west, including all Muscogee and Yuchi peoples, including the Chickasaw and Choctaw. Ndudi Ebi. For unknown reasons, possibly due to expanding European settlement in the north, the Cherokee, an Iroquoian tribe, moved south from the area now called Virginia. Sam Cassell. When Spanish explorers first visited the area, led by Hernando de Soto in 1539-43, it was inhabited by tribes of Muscogee and Yuchi people. 2 Malik Sealy.

The names of the cultural groups that inhabited the area between first settlement and the time of European contact are unknown, but several distinct cultural phases have been named by archaeologists, including Archaic, Woodland, and Mississippian whose chiefdoms were the cultural predecessors of the Muscogee people who inhabited the Tennessee River Valley prior to Cherokee migration into the river's headwaters. Isiah Rider. The area now known as Tennessee was first settled by Paleo-Indians nearly 11,000 years ago. Terry Porter. When a constitutional convention met in 1796 to organize a new state out of the Southwest Territory, it adopted "Tennessee" as the name of the state. Rasho Nesterovic. In 1788, North Carolina named the third county to be established in what is now Middle Tennessee "Tennessee County". Sam Mitchell.

The modern spelling, Tennessee, is attributed to James Glen, the Governor of South Carolina, who used this spelling in his official correspondence during the 1750s. Stephon Marbury. It has been said to mean "meeting place", "winding river", or "river of the great bend".[1] (http://www.state.tn.us/sos/statelib/pubsvs/faq.htm#01)[2] (http://www.tngenweb.org/campbell/hist-bogan/tennessee.html). Christian Laettner. Some accounts suggest it is a Cherokee modification of an earlier Yuchi or possibly Creek word. Tom Gugliotta. The meaning and origin of the word are uncertain. Terrell Brandon.

The town was located on a river of the same name (now known as the Little Tennessee River). See also Category:Minnesota Timberwolves players. European settlers later encountered a Cherokee town named Tanasi (or "Tanase") in present-day Monroe County, Tennessee. The earliest variant of the name that became Tennessee was first recorded by Captain Juan Pardo, the Spanish explorer, when he and his men passed through a Native American village named "Tanasqui" in 1567 while travelling inland from South Carolina. Tennessee is a Southern state of the United States.

ISBN 0870492853. Knoville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 1979. Tennessee's Indian Peoples. ¹ Satz, Ronald.

The USS Tennessee was named in honor of this state. Constitution, allowing women the right to vote. On August 18, 1920, Tennessee become the thirty-sixth and clinching state to ratify the 19th Amendment to the U.S. The Tennessee Valley Authority is based in Knoxville.

State song: Tennessee (http://www.50states.com/songs/tenn6.htm). Cleveland Majic. Nashville Rhythm. Minor League basketball teams