Tempo fall to fellow expansion Fire for eighth straight loss

It was a battle of two teams with much in common on Thursday night. Two expansion franchises, two teams on extended skids, and two teams that struggle in the grittier areas of the game — defending and rebounding the basketball.
Ultimately, it was the Portland Fire that snapped their five-game losing streak, extending the Toronto Tempo’s to eight, and it wasn’t particularly close. The Tempo kept sliding as they lost the one game on this stretch of schedule that looked winnable 9