All three cities have NBA teams in the Cavaliers, Pistons and 76ers, respectively. The league will have two expansion teams beginning in the upcoming 2026 season: the Portland Fire and Toronto Tempo.

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The Toronto Tempo and Portland Fire, the 14th and 15th WNBA franchises, finally have rosters. On Friday, the Tempo and Fire completed their long-awaited expansion draft, which had been delayed due to ...

Friday's 2026 WNBA expansion draft gave the Toronto Tempo and Portland Fire plenty of quality players to kick off those franchises in modern league competition. Both rosters (attached below) have good ...

The Toronto Tempo and Portland Fire, the WNBA’s newest teams, began to construct their inaugural rosters on Friday during the league’s latest expansion draft — a two-team, two-round snake draft. The ...

The Portland Fire and Toronto Tempo will finally acquire some players on Friday (3:30 p.m. ET, ESPN/fubo) when the WNBA conducts the double expansion draft for the two new franchises joining the ...

Portland and the WNBA’s other expansion team, the Toronto Tempo, can pick up to 12 players from existing teams. Head Coach of Portland Fire Alex Sarama, left, and General Manager of the team Vanja ...

Friday's 2026 WNBA expansion draft will send new players to the incoming Toronto Tempo and Portland Fire. The draft order is set, and existing WNBA teams can now protect up to five players ahead of ...

NEW YORK — As Adam Silver recalled the events, it was one of the first meetings he took after becoming NBA commissioner in 2014. His visitor that day was a minority owner of the Boston Celtics. But he ...

So, does this all mean the Seattle SuperSonics are coming back? Not necessarily, but the chance did just get a lot better. With the news Wednesday, March 25 that NBA owners had approved the formal ...