{"id":428450,"date":"2026-01-23T17:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T17:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/428450\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T17:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T17:22:10","slug":"sandy-brondello-has-clear-reason-for-circling-matchup-with-caitlin-clark-and-fever-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/428450\/","title":{"rendered":"Sandy Brondello Has Clear Reason for Circling Matchup With Caitlin Clark and Fever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the biggest stories of the WNBA offseason was the New York Liberty deciding to part ways with championship coach Sandy Brondello. But Brondello&#8217;s Liberty departure allowed her to become the first ever coach for one of the league&#8217;s new expansion franchises, the Toronto Tempo. <\/p>\n<p>The WNBA released the 2026 schedule on Wednesday, which gave fans an opportunity to begin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/wnba\/fever\/news\/3-key-dates-that-stand-out-on-indiana-fever-s-2026-wnba-schedule-01kfh34gtvbb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">circling dates on the calendar<\/a> (assuming the CBA can be settled before then).<\/p>\n<p>For the Tempo though, every game on the schedule is novel, considering the franchise has never played any other WNBA team before.<\/p>\n<p>So, it was interesting to see Brondello identify the three matchups she was most looking forward to, which included the Indiana Fever, for an obvious reason.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have Indiana, because everyone loves to play against Caitlin Clark. I think they&#8217;ve got such a big following in this league too, so our players can go into a very loud arena, I think that will be fun,&#8221; Brondello said in a video released by the Tempo on social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the biggest stories of the WNBA offseason was the New York Liberty deciding to part ways&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-428450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}