{"id":655704,"date":"2026-05-08T09:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T09:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/655704\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T09:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T09:42:10","slug":"toronto-tempo-set-for-historic-first-regular-season-wnba-game-nanaimonewsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/655704\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Tempo set for historic first regular-season WNBA game | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778233330_194_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Toronto Tempo Kia Nurse (11) drives past Connecticut Sun Taylor Bigby (2) during second half pre-season WNBA basketball action in Toronto on Wednesday, April 29, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Nathan Denette<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tMay 8, 2026 | 1:01 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>TORONTO \u2014 History will be made tonight when the Toronto Tempo host the Washington Mystics in their first-ever regular-season game. <\/p>\n<p>Toronto is one of two expansion teams joining the WNBA for its 30th season, coming in alongside the Portland Fire. <\/p>\n<p>Kia Nurse headlines the Tempo squad, and while the veteran guard hails from nearby Hamilton, Ont., she says she\u2019s treating the team\u2019s debut as \u201cjust another basketball game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Toronto added Kentucky forward Teonni Key and UCLA guard Kiki Rice to the roster at the draft. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto Tempo Kia Nurse (11) drives past Connecticut Sun Taylor Bigby (2) during second half pre-season WNBA basketball&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[879,49,48,2467,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,2465,2466,82,630],"class_list":["post-655704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655704","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=655704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}