{"id":580222,"date":"2026-04-03T20:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T20:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/580222\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T20:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T20:13:10","slug":"toronto-portland-build-their-foundations-for-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/580222\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto, Portland Build Their Foundations for the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-0\" class=\"mt-[18px] md:mt-0 mb-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"73\">The WNBA offseason is in a full sprint after the league and the players\u2019 union <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/wnba\/new-cba-wnba-venturing-into-transformative-future\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">negotiated a new CBA agreement<\/a>, and the first order of business comes on Friday as the W hosts its 2026 expansion draft for the Toronto Tempo and Portland Fire.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"76\">Last year, the then-first timers Golden State Valkyries got to handpick their rosters, but now two fresh teams will have the opportunity to build their foundation five weeks away from the season-opener. The newcomers can select their talent from a player pool made available by the league\u2019s 13 current teams in the two-round, snake-draft format. Which WNBA teams will bid farewell to beloved stars? Will the Tempo and Fire make the right moves to set them up for the future?<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"79\">Follow along in Sports Illustrated\u2019s live blog of all the draft action, including which key WNBA players will get poached this offseason.<\/p>\n<p>2026 WNBA Expansion Draft Live Updates: Toronto, Portland Build Their Foundations for the FutureMore WNBA from Sports Illustrated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The WNBA offseason is in a full sprint after the league and the players\u2019 union negotiated a new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-580222","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580222","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=580222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}