The WNBA announced today that Toronto Tempo guard Marina Mabrey has been named Eastern Conference Player of the Week for games played from Monday, May 25 through Sunday, May 31. This marks the first weekly honour of her career and first in Tempo franchise history.
Mabrey led the Tempo to a perfect 2-0 week, with wins over the Chicago Sky and the Seattle Storm. She averaged 21.0 points and 5.5 assists per game over that stretch on 57.7 per cent field goal shooting, including 67 per cent of her field goals made being unassisted, showing success at creating her own shots.
In a league season-high 111-point performance on May 27 at Chicago, Mabrey recorded 24 points, seven assists, four rebounds, and a steal while shooting 69.2 per cent from the field. She surpassed 3,000 WNBA career points and is one of eight current players in the Eastern Conference to hold this achievement.
On May 30 against Seattle, she poured in a team-high 18 points and added four assists, three rebounds, and a steal. Her three three-point field goals brought her to 463 total in her career, entering the top 25 among the WNBA’s all-time list in three-point field goals made, surpassing New York’s Sabrina Ionescu. Having a career year, Mabrey is averaging 18.7 points per game.
About Toronto Tempo
In May 2024, the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) announced its expansion into Canada by awarding Toronto an expansion team, the league’s first outside the United States. The new team, controlled by Kilmer Sports Ventures, will begin play in the 2026 season as the WNBA’s 14th franchise. Sephora Canada and CIBC are the team’s first announced founding partners. Larry Tanenbaum, Chairman of Kilmer Sports Ventures and a 30-year veteran of building championship-caliber teams, is also Chairman of the NBA Board of Governors and Chairman Emeritus of Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment, which owns the NBA’s Toronto Raptors, NHL’s Toronto Maple Leafs, MLS’ Toronto FC and other professional sports franchises. Under his leadership, the Raptors won their first NBA championship in 2019.
