The Toronto Tempo have provided an injury update on two of their most important players. <\/p>\n
Kiki Rice, who has been out since June 3 with an ankle injury, has a Grade 3 ankle sprain; and Brittney Sykes, who sustained a non-contact injury in the Tempo’s loss to the Fever on Tuesday, has a plantar fascia injury, the team announced Friday.<\/p>\n
Both players will be reevaluated in the coming weeks and are expected to recover fully and return in 2026, the Tempo added. <\/p>\n
Rice, 22, is averaging 12.7 points, 4.7 rebounds, 2.6 assists and a steal over her first 10 WNBA games, and started her last seven before being sidelined.<\/p>\n
The rookie appeared to suffer the injury on a drive to the hoop with less than two minutes left in the fourth quarter of a 97-82 loss against the\u00a0New York Liberty.<\/p>\n
Rice landed awkwardly after her shot was blocked by Jonquel Jones. She immediately grabbed her leg while on the court in pain.<\/p>\n
Rice then hobbled off the court and went to the locker room.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Sykes, better known as “Slim,” is averaging 20.1 points, 3.8 rebounds, and 3.5 assists through 15 games. She ranks fifth in the league in scoring. <\/p>\n
The 32-year-old fell while attempting to cut to the basket in the third quarter and did appear to put weight on both legs while being assisted off the court.<\/p>\n
Tempo big Nyara Sabally is listed as questionable for the team’s game on Friday against the Connecticut Sun after missing the previous three games with a right hamstring injury.<\/p>\n
If Sabally is unable to go, the Tempo will only have nine players available for the contest, barring any last-second roster moves. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Tempo have provided an injury update on two of their most important players. Kiki Rice, who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":713709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-713708","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\/713708","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=713708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/713709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}