{"id":603665,"date":"2026-04-14T15:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T15:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/603665\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T15:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T15:38:09","slug":"toronto-tempo-sign-canadian-guard-kia-nurse-ahead-of-inaugural-wnba-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/603665\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Tempo sign Canadian guard Kia Nurse ahead of inaugural WNBA season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776181089_941_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Kia Nurse, of Canada, drives around Promise Amukamara, of Nigeria, at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Sunday, Aug. 4, 2024, in Villeneuve-d&#8217;Ascq, France. (AP Photo\/Mark J. Terrill)<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tApr 14, 2026 | 8:22 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>TORONTO \u2014 The Toronto Tempo have signed Canadian guard Kia Nurse ahead of the franchise\u2019s inaugural WNBA season, the team announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Hamilton native gives the expansion club an experienced backcourt option with 245 career WNBA games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKia represents everything this franchise stands for,\u201d Tempo general manager Monica Wright Rogers said in a statement. \u201cShe\u2019s a world-class athlete, a proven professional, and someone who has helped grow the game in Canada at every level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old Nurse played the 2025 season with the Chicago Sky, appearing in 44 games (18 starts) and averaging 7.2 points while shooting 33.5 per cent from three-point range.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kia Nurse, of Canada, drives around Promise Amukamara, of Nigeria, at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Sunday, Aug. 4,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":{"0":"post-603665","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-toronto"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603665","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=603665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}