What to know<\/p>\n
Toronto Tempo is kicking off the Women\u2019s National Basketball Association season at the Coca-Cola Coliseum today.<\/p>\n
Young girls are inspired by Toronto\u2019s first all-women professional basketball team.<\/p>\n
Toronto Tempo lost by three points to the Washington Mystics.<\/p>\n
Toronto Tempo might have lost their first game, but that didn\u2019t stop the Women\u2019s National Basketball Association (WNBA) fans from coming out in droves.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Toronto Tempo lost to the Washington Mystics 68-65 in the team\u2019s first-ever regular season game at Coca-Cola Coliseum. Although it wasn\u2019t the result Torontonians hoped for, they\u2019re proud of the professional women athletes.<\/p>\n
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Toronto resident Maliya is a young girl who\u2019s only ever seen a basketball match on TV, and she\u2019s excited that her first in-person match is played by Toronto\u2019s women\u2019s team.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s really exciting, and I\u2019m really glad Toronto has a team for women,\u201d she told Now Toronto before tip-off.<\/p>\n
Looking forward to the game, her dad bought Maliya and her mom some Toronto Tempo merch.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cSo my dad got me and my mom matching tempo sweaters for a present, and we\u2019re both really excited for this, and we\u2019re hoping to buy hats at the game too,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Another young girl, Etta, finds it inspiring to see Toronto have a professional basketball team.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI am excited because this is the first game. It\u2019s the grand opening. It\u2019s once in a lifetime,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Etta is also a basketball player for the last three years and aspires to play for Toronto Tempo when she grows up.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Another Toronto resident, Kendra, grew up playing basketball alongside her sister and decided to gift her mom with a Toronto Tempo ticket for Mother\u2019s Day.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She finds the event inspiring and is glad it\u2019s right here in the city.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI coach young girls basketball, so it\u2019s really exciting that they have something to look up to now as well,\u201d Kendra told Now Toronto.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What to know Toronto Tempo is kicking off the Women\u2019s National Basketball Association season at the Coca-Cola Coliseum…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[461,243695,43,44,41,39,42,40,45963,737,630],"class_list":["post-658606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-basketball","tag-coca-cola-coliseum","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-toronto-tempo","tag-washington-mystics","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658606","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=658606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}