{"id":688464,"date":"2026-05-23T11:47:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T11:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/688464\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T11:47:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T11:47:17","slug":"toronto-tempo-hosts-portland-fire-in-first-meeting-of-wnba-expansion-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/688464\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Tempo hosts Portland Fire in first meeting of WNBA expansion teams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1779532873_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Toronto Tempo&#8217;s Kia Nurse signals to a teammate during WNBA basketball action against the Washington Mystics in Toronto on Friday, May 8, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Chris Young<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tMay 23, 2026 | 3:00 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>TORONTO \u2014 The Toronto Tempo host the Portland Fire tonight in the first-ever meeting between the two WNBA expansion teams.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto (3-3) is returning to Coca-Cola Coliseum after a four-game road trip.<\/p>\n<p>The Tempo won two of those four games and sit 10th in the 15-team league.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton\u2019s Kia Nurse scored 23 points in Toronto\u2019s 100-72 loss to the Minnesota Lynx on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto Tempo&#8217;s Kia Nurse signals to a teammate during WNBA basketball action against the Washington Mystics in Toronto&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":688362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-688464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688464","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=688464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/688362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}