{"id":797350,"date":"2026-07-12T16:09:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T16:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/797350\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T16:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T16:09:10","slug":"toronto-tempo-host-new-york-liberty-in-montreal-looking-to-shake-four-game-skid-on-tsn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/797350\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Tempo host New York Liberty in Montreal looking to shake four-game skid on TSN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Toronto Tempo are playing their second consecutive game at the Bell Centre in Montreal, this time hosting the New York Liberty in an Eastern Conference showdown on TSN.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tsn.ca\/live\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/tsn.ca\/live\">You can watch the Tempo and Liberty face off LIVE on TSN3\/4, TSN.ca and the TSN App, with coverage beginning at 3p.m. ET \/ Noon PT.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Friday\u2019s 108-95 loss to Paige Bueckers and the Dallas Wings took place in front of a WNBA record-setting crowd of 20,966 fans &#8211; something the team was proud of even if the result didn\u2019t go in the Tempo\u2019s favour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201c[This has] been years in the making,\u201d Tempo forward Isabelle Harrison said after the game. \u201cTo be living in these actual conversations, to be right here, right now, it\u2019s bigger than us.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">I hope Canada is proud of us. We play every day for you guys, and we\u2019re just really happy to be here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The games took place as part of the Tempo\u2019s Cross Canada series, which features two stops in Montreal in July and two stops in Vancouver later in the season in August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI thought the atmosphere was fantastic. It\u2019s great to be up here and have the fans to come out and support the WNBA and the Tempo,\u201d head coach Sandy Brondello said after the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It\u2019s been a season of firsts for the league and the team, with the Tempo playing in their inaugural campaign. The record-setting night in Montreal is a momentous occasion for basketball in the country, but the Tempo still have to focus on improving their play on the court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">As TSN\u2019s Chelsea Leite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/wnba\/article\/tempo-fall-in-first-montreal-match-to-season-high-bueckers-performance\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/wnba\/article\/tempo-fall-in-first-montreal-match-to-season-high-bueckers-performance\/\">noted earlier this week<\/a>, the Tempo play the fourth-hardest schedule through the remainder of this season and the current four-game skid has seen the team drop to fifth in the Eastern Conference and 11th in the league.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Injuries have taken their fair share of the blame for the team\u2019s struggles in the midpoint of the season. Top guard Brittney Sykes and exciting rookie Kiki Rice have both missed weeks with foot injuries, while Nyara Sabally and Temi Fagbenle are also dealing with injuries in Toronto\u2019s front court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWe had four of our main players out, but we fought hard,\u201d Brondello said after the game against the Wings. \u201cWe just ran out of gas, didn\u2019t have enough in the tank to finish it off. But credit to Dallas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Tempo (9-13) have another tough task in front of them in the Liberty (13-10), who are second in the Eastern Conference and were the 2024 WNBA champions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Tempo are playing their second consecutive game at the Bell Centre in Montreal, this time hosting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[712,49,48,2338,243298],"class_list":["post-797350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal","tag-toronto-tempo-sports-basketball-team-team-statscom-45513"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797350","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=797350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}