{"id":710804,"date":"2026-06-02T21:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T21:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/710804\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T21:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T21:15:09","slug":"tempos-marina-mabrey-named-wnba-east-player-of-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/710804\/","title":{"rendered":"Tempo&#8217;s Marina Mabrey named WNBA East player of week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/wnba\/teams\/toronto-tempo\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"toronto-tempo\" data-league=\"wnba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Toronto Tempo<\/a> guard Marina Mabrey has been named the WNBA&#8217;s Eastern Conference player of the week, marking the first weekly honour of her career and the first in franchise history.<\/p>\n<p>Mabrey averaged 21 points and 5.5 assists per game while shooting 57.7 per cent from the field in wins last week over the Chicago Sky and Seattle Storm.<\/p>\n<p>Mabrey, who is averaging 18.7 points per game this season, surpassed 3,000 career points during the week.<\/p>\n<p>She scored 24 points with seven assists, four rebounds, and a steal on 69.2 per cent shooting as Toronto scored a league season-high in points in a 111-104 road win over the Sky on May 27.<\/p>\n<p>Mabrey then scored a team-high 18 points, added four assists, three rebounds, and a steal on Saturday in a 93-72 win over the visiting Storm. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old also reached a pair of career milestones during the week, surpassing 3,000 points and climbing into the WNBA&#8217;s top 25 in all-time three-pointers.<\/p>\n<p>The Tempo (5-4) are set to return to action Wednesday against the Liberty in New York.<\/p>\n<p>Jessica Shepard, who averaged a monstrous 22-point, 20-rebound, 10-assist triple-double for the week, took the honour for the Western Conference.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; With files from Sportsnet Staff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto Tempo guard Marina Mabrey has been named the WNBA&#8217;s Eastern Conference player of the week, marking the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":710805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-710804","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\/710804","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=710804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/710805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}