{"id":873262,"date":"2026-08-27T11:22:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T11:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/873262\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T11:22:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T11:22:16","slug":"short-handed-tempo-fall-to-storm-flaujae-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/873262\/","title":{"rendered":"Short-handed Tempo fall to Storm, Flau\u2019jae Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SEATTLE \u2014 Flau\u2019jae Johnson scored 20 points, Dominique Malonga added 18 and the Seattle Storm beat the short-handed <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> 90-78 on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Jade Melbourne had 16 points and seven assists for Seattle (8-31), which had lost 14 of its last 15 games. Awa Fam and Zia Cooke each scored 10 points.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto was without its top three scorers in Marina Mabrey (adductor), Brittney Sykes (foot) and Nyara Sabally (calf).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rookie Kiki Rice scored a season-high 24 points for Toronto (11-27). Isabelle Harrison had 17 points and 14 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>Seattle closed the third quarter on an 11-4 run to take a 64-61 lead and opened the fourth with a 9-2 spurt for a 10-point advantage.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tempo: At Las Vegas on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Storm: Host Los Angeles on Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEATTLE \u2014 Flau\u2019jae Johnson scored 20 points, Dominique Malonga added 18 and the Seattle Storm beat the short-handed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":873263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-873262","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\/873262","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=873262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/873263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}