{"id":713790,"date":"2026-06-04T04:48:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T04:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/713790\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T04:48:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T04:48:17","slug":"toronto-rookie-kiki-rice-limps-off-late-with-injury-vs-new-york-liberty-no-immediate-update-winnipeg-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/713790\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto rookie Kiki Rice limps off late with injury vs New York Liberty, no immediate update \u2013 Winnipeg Free Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Toronto Tempo rookie guard Kiki Rice left Wednesday night\u2019s loss to the New York Liberty after getting injured in the final two minutes of the game.<\/p>\n<p>With 1:33 left, Rice fell to the court when her shot was blocked and was holding her left ankle before she got up and hopped to the locker room.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto coach Sandy Brondello said after the game that there was no immediate update on Rice\u2019s condition.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6a20e84bc1143efb08004b3bjpeg.jpg\" data-pswp- data-pswp-width=\"4543\" data-pswp-height=\"3029\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6a20e84bc1143efb08004b3bjpeg.jpg\" alt=\"Toronto Tempo guard Kiki Rice (1) lays injured on the ground during the second half of a WNBA basketball game against the New York Liberty, Wednesday, June 3, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo\/Heather Khalifa)\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tToronto Tempo guard Kiki Rice (1) lays injured on the ground during the second half of a WNBA basketball game against the New York Liberty, Wednesday, June 3, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo\/Heather Khalifa)<\/p>\n<p>Rice had nine points and five rebounds before she got hurt. Coming into the game, the No. 6 pick in the draft was averaging 13.1 points and 4.7 rebounds on the season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s a tough kid, but, yeah, it\u2019s unfortunate,\u201d Brondello said.<\/p>\n<p>Rice helped UCLA win its first NCAA national championship two months ago before coming to Toronto in the WNBA draft.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP WNBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/wnba-basketball<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Toronto Tempo rookie guard Kiki Rice left Wednesday night\u2019s loss to the New York&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":713791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-713790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713790","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=713790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/713791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}