{"id":838695,"date":"2026-07-31T18:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T18:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/838695\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T18:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T18:23:09","slug":"toronto-tempo-gets-frontcourt-help-in-aneesah-morrow-from-connecticut-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/838695\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Tempo gets frontcourt help in Aneesah Morrow from Connecticut Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Toronto Tempo have found the frontcourt help they were looking for ahead of Sunday\u2019s trade deadline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The team announced the acquisition of Aneesah Morrow from the Connecticut Sun on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Going the other way are the rights to Maria Kliundikova and a second-round pick in 2028.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Morrow, 23, is in her second WNBA season out of LSU after being taken with the seventh overall selection of the 2025 WNBA Draft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In 20 games this season, Morrow is averaging 11.6 points on .421 shooting, 8.9 boards and 1.7 assists over 23.2 minutes a night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A native of Chicago, Morrow twice led the NCAA in rebounding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Kliundikova, 28, was an expansion draft selection from the Minnesota Lynx. She did not report to the Tempo and was not expected to play at all in the WNBA this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Tempo also announced guard Tima Pouye has been waived.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Tempo have found the frontcourt help they were looking for ahead of Sunday\u2019s trade deadline. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[712,49,48,262872,82,243298,630],"class_list":["post-838695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-connecticut-sun-sports-basketball-team-team-statscom-157","tag-sports","tag-toronto-tempo-sports-basketball-team-team-statscom-45513","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838695","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=838695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}