{"id":825055,"date":"2026-08-25T07:02:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T07:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/825055\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T07:02:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T07:02:13","slug":"seattle-faces-toronto-aims-to-end-3-game-skid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/825055\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle faces Toronto, aims to end 3-game skid"},"content":{"rendered":"

Toronto Tempo<\/a> (11-26, 5-11 Eastern Conference) at Seattle Storm<\/a> (7-31, 1-17 Western Conference)<\/p>\n

Seattle; Wednesday, 10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Seattle Storm looks to stop its three-game slide when the Storm play Toronto Tempo.<\/p>\n

The Storm are 5-13 on their home court. Seattle ranks seventh in the Western Conference with 19.1 assists per game led by Natisha Hiedeman<\/a> averaging 4.8.<\/p>\n

The Tempo are 4-13 on the road. Toronto ranks seventh in the Eastern Conference giving up 93.7 points while holding opponents to 47.4% shooting.<\/p>\n

Seattle’s average of 8.6 made 3-pointers per game this season is only 0.8 fewer made shots on average than the 9.4 per game Toronto gives up. Toronto averages 10.0 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.3 more made shots on average than the 8.7 per game Seattle allows.<\/p>\n

The teams play for the third time this season. The Tempo won the last meeting 93-72 on May 30. Marina Mabrey<\/a> scored 18 points to help lead the Tempo to the win.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Hiedeman is scoring 15.4 points per game and averaging 2.7 rebounds for the Storm. Dominique Malonga<\/a> is averaging 17.2 points and 8.7 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Julie Allemand<\/a> is averaging 6.3 points and 5.6 assists for the Tempo. Kiki Rice<\/a> is averaging 12.2 points and 2.7 rebounds while shooting 47.3% over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Storm: 1-9, averaging 85.1 points, 34.7 rebounds, 18.8 assists, 7.3 steals and 5.0 blocks per game while shooting 41.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 92.2 points per game.<\/p>\n

Tempo: 1-9, averaging 83.5 points, 31.5 rebounds, 20.1 assists, 5.9 steals and 3.4 blocks per game while shooting 43.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 95.1 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Storm: Natisha Hiedeman: day to day (shoulder).<\/p>\n

Tempo: Aneesah Morrow: out for season (knee), Brittney Sykes: out for season (foot), Julie Allemand: day to day (head), Marina Mabrey: out (adductor), Nyara Sabally: out (calf), Maria Conde: day to day (calf).<\/p>\n

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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto Tempo (11-26, 5-11 Eastern Conference) at Seattle Storm (7-31, 1-17 Western Conference) Seattle; Wednesday, 10 p.m. EDT…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":814100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[56300,230765,23628,65485,12816,3254,4676,99,85228,434,13016],"class_list":["post-825055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-dominique-malonga","tag-event_preview","tag-julie-allemand","tag-kiki-rice","tag-marina-mabrey","tag-natisha-hiedeman","tag-seattle-storm","tag-sports","tag-toronto-tempo","tag-wnba","tag-womens-national-basketball-association"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825055","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=825055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/814100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}