{"id":627965,"date":"2026-05-07T01:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T01:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/627965\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T01:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T01:55:10","slug":"gonzaga-all-time-leading-scorer-yvonne-ejim-gets-wnba-shot-with-toronto-tempo-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/627965\/","title":{"rendered":"Gonzaga all-time leading scorer Yvonne Ejim gets WNBA shot with Toronto Tempo | Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO, Ont. &#8211; Gonzaga women&#8217;s basketball legend and all-time leading scorer Yvonne Ejim gets her second shot at the WNBA.<\/p>\n<p>The Calgary native signed a training camp contract with the WNBA expansion team, the Toronto Tempo, the league&#8217;s first-ever Canadian team.<\/p>\n<p>The training camp contract means Ejim is one of 16 players signed, but not yet a part of the final 12 to make the regular-season roster.<\/p>\n<p>Ejim was the 33rd overall pick in the 2025 WNBA Draft by the Indiana Fever, but was later waived before the start of the season.<\/p>\n<p>COPYRIGHT 2026 BY KXLY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. THIS MATERIAL MAY NOT BE PUBLISHED, BROADCAST, REWRITTEN OR REDISTRIBUTED.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO, Ont. &#8211; Gonzaga women&#8217;s basketball legend and all-time leading scorer Yvonne Ejim gets her second shot at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[9809,668,8456,3,99,41201,452,434],"class_list":["post-627965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-gonzaga-bulldogs","tag-local-sports","tag-national-sports","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-storytracker","tag-top-stories","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627965","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=627965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}