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Portland Fire<\/a> (15-20, 6-11 Western Conference) at Toronto Tempo<\/a> (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<\/a> with 8.4 offensive rebounds per game led by Aneesah Morrow<\/a> 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<\/a> averaging 4.2.<\/p>\n

Toronto averages 87.7 points per game, 3.4 fewer points than the 91.1 Portland gives up. Portland’s 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<\/a> 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<\/a> is averaging 15.7 points and 3.2 assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Bridget Carleton<\/a> is averaging 14.5 points and 1.5 steals for the Fire. Karlie Samuelson<\/a> 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

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/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":175261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[48805,23805,55638,31668,2708,55639,2693,12276,48,2318,14503],"class_list":["post-175260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-aneesah-morrow","tag-bridget-carleton","tag-carla-leite","tag-emily-engstler","tag-event_preview","tag-karlie-samuelson","tag-marina-mabrey","tag-portland-fire","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-tempo","tag-womens-national-basketball-association"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175260","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=175260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}