{"id":576351,"date":"2026-04-02T01:28:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T01:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/576351\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T01:28:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T01:28:20","slug":"toronto-tempo-acquire-26th-pick-in-wnba-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/576351\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Tempo acquire 26th pick in WNBA draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Toronto Tempo have acquired the 26th pick in the 2026 WNBA Draft from the Chicago Sky.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Tempo will not pick from Chicago\u2019s unprotected list at Friday\u2019s expansion draft in return.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto also holds the sixth, 22nd and 36th picks at the WNBA Draft on April 13.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">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 class=\"c-paragraph\">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\u2019s Coca-Cola Coliseum.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 1, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Tempo have acquired the 26th pick in the 2026 WNBA Draft from the Chicago Sky. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,82,3302],"class_list":{"0":"post-576351","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-toronto"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576351","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=576351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}