{"id":609595,"date":"2026-04-27T16:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T16:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/609595\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T16:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T16:58:09","slug":"tempo-take-uclas-rice-with-1st-draft-pick-in-franchise-his","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/609595\/","title":{"rendered":"Tempo take UCLA&#8217;s Rice with 1st draft pick in franchise his\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Follow the 2026 WNBA Draft with <a data-in-app-uri=\"thescore:\/\/\/news\/3508842\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thescore.com\/wcbk\/news\/3508842\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">theScore&#8217;s live tracker<\/a> to view all selections as they happen.<\/p>\n<p>The Toronto Tempo opted for UCLA guard Kiki Rice with the No. 6 overall pick in Monday&#8217;s WNBA draft.<\/p>\n<p>Rice is headed to Toronto after a decorated spell with the Bruins in which she started 143 games across four seasons. The talented point guard was twice named to the All-Big Ten first-team and was chosen as the Big Ten Tournament&#8217;s Most Outstanding Player in March.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old is a modern floor general who thrives in pick-and-rolls and gets downhill in a hurry. She&#8217;s also an excellent perimeter defender and three-level scorer. Rice has enough upside to become a high-level starter in the WNBA.<\/p>\n<p>Nationality: American<br \/>Position: Point guard<br \/>Height: 5-foot-11<\/p>\n<p>GP<br \/>\nPTS<br \/>\nREB<br \/>\nAST<br \/>\nFG%<br \/>\n3PT%<br \/>\nFT%<\/p>\n<p>38<br \/>\n14.9<br \/>\n5.9<br \/>\n4.3<br \/>\n49<br \/>\n38.5<br \/>\n90.2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Follow the 2026 WNBA Draft with theScore&#8217;s live tracker to view all selections as they happen. The Toronto&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-609595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}