{"id":827325,"date":"2026-08-27T07:36:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T07:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/827325\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T07:36:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T07:36:18","slug":"toronto-faces-las-vegas-after-rices-24-point-outing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/827325\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto faces Las Vegas after Rice’s 24-point outing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Toronto Tempo<\/a> (11-27, 5-11 Eastern Conference) at Las Vegas Aces<\/a> (26-13, 13-6 Western Conference)<\/p>\n

Las Vegas; Friday, 10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Toronto Tempo takes on the Las Vegas Aces after Kiki Rice<\/a> scored 24 points in the Tempo’s 90-78 loss to the Seattle Storm<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Aces have gone 12-7 at home. Las Vegas is third in the WNBA<\/a> with 25.8 defensive rebounds per game led by A’ja Wilson averaging 7.7.<\/p>\n

The Tempo are 4-14 on the road. Toronto is 5-18 in games decided by 10 points or more.<\/p>\n

Las Vegas is shooting 48.3% from the field this season, 1.0 percentage point higher than the 47.3% Toronto allows to opponents. Toronto averages 9.8 made 3-pointers per game this season, 0.9 more makes per game than Las Vegas gives up.<\/p>\n

The two teams match up for the third time this season. The Aces defeated the Tempo 88-78 in their last meeting on Aug. 23. Wilson led the Aces with 27 points, and Kia Nurse<\/a> led the Tempo with 19 points.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Wilson is averaging 26 points, 9.5 rebounds, 3.2 assists and two blocks for the Aces. Jackie Young<\/a> is averaging 20.7 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Laura Juskaite<\/a> is scoring 10.2 points per game and averaging 4.2 rebounds for the Tempo. Marina Mabrey<\/a> is averaging 1.8 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Aces: 6-4, averaging 88.0 points, 31.8 rebounds, 20.1 assists, 6.4 steals and 4.4 blocks per game while shooting 45.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 87.7 points per game.<\/p>\n

Tempo: 1-9, averaging 84.1 points, 33.2 rebounds, 19.6 assists, 6.0 steals and 3.1 blocks per game while shooting 42.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 93.7 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Aces: Janiah Barker: out for season (leg), NaLyssa Smith: day to day (lower-body), Dana Evans<\/a>: day to day (leg).<\/p>\n

Tempo: Aneesah Morrow: out for season (knee), Brittney Sykes: out for season (foot), Marina Mabrey: out (adductor), Nyara Sabally: out (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 (11-27, 5-11 Eastern Conference) at Las Vegas Aces (26-13, 13-6 Western Conference) Las Vegas; Friday, 10…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":814100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[7637,230765,7638,9213,65485,4677,280197,12816,99,85228,434,13016],"class_list":["post-827325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-dana-evans","tag-event_preview","tag-jackie-young","tag-kia-nurse","tag-kiki-rice","tag-las-vegas-aces","tag-laura-juskaite","tag-marina-mabrey","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\/827325","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=827325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827325\/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=827325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}