Portland Fire (15-20, 6-11 Western Conference) at Toronto Tempo (10-25, 5-11 Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Vancouver, British Columbia; Friday, 10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Toronto Tempo is looking to end its five-game home slide with a victory over Portland Fire.<\/p>\n
The Tempo are 6-12 in home games. Toronto is seventh in the WNBA with 8.4 offensive rebounds per game led by Aneesah Morrow averaging 2.7 offensive boards.<\/p>\n
The Fire are 7-10 on the road. Portland ranks eighth in the Western Conference with 22.7 defensive rebounds per game led by Emily Engstler averaging 4.2.<\/p>\n
Toronto averages 87.7 points per game, 3.4 fewer points than the 91.1 Portland gives up. Portland\u2019s 45.3% shooting percentage from the field this season is 2.2 percentage points lower than Toronto has given up to its opponents (47.5%).<\/p>\n
The teams play for the third time this season. The Fire won the last meeting 97-83 on Aug. 7, with Carla Leite scoring 27 points in the victory.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Morrow is scoring 11.4 points per game with 8.5 rebounds and 1.5 assists for the Tempo. Marina Mabrey is averaging 15.7 points and 3.2 assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Bridget Carleton is averaging 14.5 points and 1.5 steals for the Fire. Karlie Samuelson is averaging 1.4 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Tempo: 0-10, averaging 85.1 points, 32.9 rebounds, 20.1 assists, 6.1 steals and 3.3 blocks per game while shooting 43.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 99.3 points per game.<\/p>\n
Fire: 4-6, averaging 92.2 points, 32.9 rebounds, 22.0 assists, 6.8 steals and 2.7 blocks per game while shooting 47.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 94.6 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Tempo: Brittney Sykes: day to day (foot), Marina Mabrey: day to day (hamstring), Nyara Sabally: day to day (calf), Maria Conde: day to day (calf).<\/p>\n
Fire: Sarah Ashlee Barker: out for season (knee), Sania Feagin: out for season (knee).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Portland Fire (15-20, 6-11 Western Conference) at Toronto Tempo (10-25, 5-11 Eastern Conference) Vancouver, British Columbia; Friday, 10…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[48805,23805,2692,55638,31668,55639,19957,2693,23802,23806,31667,55637,49,48,2317,16428],"class_list":["post-175248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-aneesah-morrow","tag-bridget-carleton","tag-brittney-sykes","tag-carla-leite","tag-emily-engstler","tag-karlie-samuelson","tag-maria-conde","tag-marina-mabrey","tag-nyara-sabally","tag-portland","tag-portland-pilots","tag-sarah-ashlee-barker","tag-sports","tag-toronto","tag-wnba","tag-wnba-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}