{"id":576253,"date":"2026-04-02T00:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T00:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/576253\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T00:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T00:28:10","slug":"toronto-tempo-acquires-26th-pick-of-2026-wnba-draft-from-chicago-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/576253\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Tempo acquires 26th pick of 2026 WNBA draft from Chicago Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/sports\/basketball\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Basketball<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Toronto Tempo have acquired the 26th pick in the 2026 WNBA Draft from the Chicago Sky. The Tempo will not pick from Chicago&#8217;s unprotected list at Friday&#8217;s expansion draft in return.<\/p>\n<p>In return, Toronto will not pick from Chicago&#8217;s unprotected list in expansion draft<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press  \u00b7 Posted: Apr 01, 2026 7:07 PM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hour ago<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"Purple and teal blue logo with a basketball with a capital T in the middle, the word Toronto Tempo spelled out at the bottom of the photo\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1775089690_614_default.jpg\" data-cy=\"leadmedia-story-img\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>The Toronto Tempo have acquired the 26th pick in the 2026 WNBA draft from the Chicago Sky. (Credit: Instagram\/torontotempo)<\/p>\n<p>The Toronto Tempo have acquired the 26th pick in the 2026 WNBA Draft from the Chicago Sky.<\/p>\n<p>The Tempo will not pick from Chicago&#8217;s unprotected list at Friday&#8217;s expansion draft in return.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto also holds the sixth, 22nd and 36th picks at the WNBA Draft on April 13.<\/p>\n<p>The Tempo, who have yet to acquire a player, have a short runway to stock their roster ahead of the 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p>The Tempo make their WNBA debut in a pre-season game against the Connecticut Sun before kicking off their inaugural WNBA campaign May 8 against Washington at Toronto&#8217;s Coca-Cola Coliseum.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"reportIssue-MwDQL\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/corrections-clarifications-1.5893564\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Corrections and clarifications<\/a>\u00b7Report error<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Basketball The Toronto Tempo have acquired the 26th pick in the 2026 WNBA Draft from the Chicago Sky.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-576253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576253","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=576253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}