{"id":691241,"date":"2026-06-08T08:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T08:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/691241\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T08:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T08:00:18","slug":"the-chicago-sky-lose-85-68-to-the-toronto-tempo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/691241\/","title":{"rendered":"The Chicago Sky lose 85-68 to the Toronto Tempo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO \u2014 Brittney Sykes scored 25 points, Nyara Sabally added 15 and the Toronto Tempo beat the Chicago Sky 85-68 on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Isabelle Harrison, who missed the first 10 games of the season with a thumb injury, finished with 14 points in her season debut and Laura Juskaite scored 10 for the Tempo (6-5). Marina Mabrey added nine points, six assists, four rebounds, two steals and a block. Harrison and Mabrey were among the former Sky players on the Tempo roster Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2026\/05\/30\/azura-stevens-chicago-sky-stability\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Azur\u00e1 Stevens<\/a> had a season-high 18 points and 10 rebounds for Chicago, her second consecutive game with a double-double. Gabriela Jaquez (knee) returned from a four-game absence and finished with 11 points, and Jacy Sheldon scored 10.<\/p>\n<p>The Sky (4-7) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2026\/06\/05\/chicago-sky-connecticut-sun-skylar-diggins\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">beat the Connecticut Sun 85-80<\/a> on Friday to snap a five-game skid.<\/p>\n<p>Harrison hit a 3-pointer with 4:12 left in the first quarter that made it 20-9 and the Tempo led by double figures the rest of the way.<\/p>\n<p>The Tempo set season lows for 3-pointers made (four) and 3-point percentage (18.2%).<\/p>\n<p>Rookie Kiki Rice (ankle) did not play for Toronto.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2026\/05\/27\/chicago-sky-toronto-tempo-takeaways\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto beat the Sky 111-104<\/a> behind a career-high 29 points from Sabally on May 27 in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>The Sky host the Atlanta Dream on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Tempo host the Connecticut Sun on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 Brittney Sykes scored 25 points, Nyara Sabally added 15 and the Toronto Tempo beat the Chicago&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":691242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[5479,438,65482,99,85228,434,13017],"class_list":["post-691241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-azura-stevens","tag-chicago-sky","tag-gabriela-jaquez","tag-sports","tag-toronto-tempo","tag-wnba","tag-wnba-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691241","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=691241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/691242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}