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Tempo address rebounding issues by acquiring Aneesah Morrow from Sun

By Thomson Reuters Jul 31, 2026 | 1:26 PM

The Toronto Tempo acquired power forward Aneesah Morrow from the Connecticut Sun on Friday for a ​2028 second-round draft pick and ‌the rights to veteran Russian forward Maria Kliundikova.

Morrow, who ranks eighth in the WNBA with 8.9 rebounds, addresses Toronto’s issues on the ‌glass. ​The expansion Tempo are ⁠last in the ⁠15-team league with a 47% rebounding rate.

The seventh overall pick of the 2025 WNBA Draft, Morrow also averaged ​11.6 points while shooting 42.1% from the field for Connecticut.

Morrow, 23, missed ⁠three weeks in ⁠July with a leg injury ​that required some reconditioning time. But in ​her three games since returning to ‌action, Morrow averaged 17.3 points, 6.3 rebounds and 1.3 steals while making 21 of 39 shots from the field.

Kliundikova, ⁠28, has played in just three WNBA seasons since becoming the Los Angeles Sparks’ first-round ⁠pick ‌in 2018. The 6-foot-4 player ⁠averaged 4.4 points and 3.0 ​rebounds ‌in 11.0 minutes off ​the bench ⁠last year for the Minnesota Lynx, then the Tempo used an expansion pick to bring her to Toronto.

Kliundikova has not played in a game this season.

–Field ​Level Media