Locked On Women’s Basketball: Watching the Toronto Tempo and WNBA grow in Canada

First, Hayley begins by talking about what it has been like trying to cover the WNBA in Canada.

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“It’s definitely difficult, because the landscape wasn’t really here,” she said. “I was one of very few (WNBA writers) in Canada. There’s obviously so many people who came before me who have been covering this league since there were 200 people watching the Liberty instead of a sold-out crowd at Barclays. You know, there’s definitely so many who came before me, but it was hard, and I think of not even being able to watch games here, it was kind of like, ‘okay, I’m like, looking at box scores. I’m trying to see what storylines are relevant when I can’t even watch these games.’”

Later, the two discuss the future of the Tempo being Canada’s first WNBA team and how women’s sports have boomed in Canada.

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“It’s just so incredible to be at a place where we are, not even just in Toronto, but Canada,” Hayley said. “… I could never imagine that we’d be at a point where this summer in Vancouver, we’re gonna have our third WNBA Canada game, which is so incredible. We’re gonna have an entire (soccer) league that’s playing out this summer, we have the PWHL.”

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