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<\/p>\nToronto led 12-3 out of the gate. However, the Tempo (10-18) committed 24 turnovers, which led to 31 points for the visitors, who swept the three-game series against Toronto by scoring 100 or more points in each outing.<\/p>\n
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Minnesota (24-6) grabbed 36 rebounds, 10 more than the Tempo.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the best team in the league, and they got back playing like the best team in the league today,\u201d said Brondello, whose team dropped a 100-93 decision in Minnesota on Tuesday. \u201cThey played great. Credit to Minnesota. They\u2019re a great team, but we didn\u2019t have enough resistance, so we just got to get back to know what winning basketball looks like, and that\u2019s being physically tough at both ends of the floor.\u201d<\/p>\n
The stint away from Toronto is not going to be easy for the Tempo because of the quality teams that will be waiting. The Tempo begin its 11-day, five-game trip with back-to-back games against the Golden State Valkyries (19-9) on Sunday and Tuesday, before moving on to games against the Portland Fire (11-17), Atlanta Dream (17-10) and Dallas Wings (18-10).<\/p>\n
\u201cThe message in going on the road trip is: we\u2019re going to compete,\u201d Brondello said. \u201cWe have to show some fight. When we\u2019re winning, it\u2019s all good, and when we\u2019re losing, it\u2019s all bad.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve got to face adversity, and we are. What kind of team do we want to be? We can still fight, regardless of the score.\u201d<\/p>\n
This was the Tempo\u2019s second game at Scotiabank Arena. In its first home outing away from its usual home court at Coca-Cola Coliseum, the Tempo drew 15,687 fans against the Phoenix Mercury on June 27.<\/p>\n
Despite the loss, Kia Nurse, who is from Hamilton, was grateful for the experience of playing in Toronto\u2019s largest arena.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen it\u2019s just been the Toronto Raptors in the city, it\u2019s just been Scotiabank Arena or Air Canada Centre if you\u2019re an oldie like me,\u201d Nurse said. \u201cNow there\u2019s Coca-Cola Coliseum as well. It\u2019s going to be synonymous with thinking about basketball when we think about Toronto.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is obviously an iconic arena, and being able to play here as the Toronto Tempo is massive. It\u2019s obviously got more seats, so we can invite more eyes into the game. But it\u2019s massive to be able to continue to grow the game here. We\u2019re lucky we have a couple of different home venues that we can play in, and still have a great fan base and a great crowd behind us.\u201d<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 30, 2026. <\/p>\n
Tim Wharnsby, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto led 12-3 out of the gate. However, the Tempo (10-18) committed 24 turnovers, which led to 31…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":838100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[879,49,48,2467,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,2465,2466,82,3302],"class_list":["post-838099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-sports","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838099","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=838099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/838100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}