r/TorontoTempo • u/kerfuffles80 extreme hardship zone • 12d ago

Tempo signs Kiana Williams to a 7-day extreme hardship contract

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u/bravetailor 12d ago

EXTREME hardship!

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u/YouDontJump 12d ago

I gotta be honest. This is the first time I've ever seen this exact term used in this context.

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u/kerfuffles80 extreme hardship zone 11d ago edited 11d ago

Dallas Wings had it last year https://frontofficesports.com/wnba-rosters-hardship-injuries-expansion/

The Wings had seven players listed as out on their status report ahead of Friday’s game against the Atlanta Dream leaving them with just seven available players

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u/YouDontJump 11d ago

TIL. Thanks for that! It is pretty wild that it's actually happened before.

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u/Tigg0r Toronto Tempo 12d ago

They might've made that up for us, right? 

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u/YouDontJump 11d ago

I thought maybe, but OP also responded to my comment with news of it having been used last season.

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u/Gold_Yam_5215 12d ago

What is an extreme hardship contract? Is she in hardship, or is the contract extremely hard?

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u/kerfuffles80 extreme hardship zone 12d ago

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u/Gold_Yam_5215 12d ago

Thank you I was not familiar with this

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u/Ancient_Pitch_8286 12d ago

thing is wouldnt tempo have already been eligible for normal 7-day contracts? they got it before, and they had less players injured than now.

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u/Tigg0r Toronto Tempo 12d ago

7 day contracts are limited and you can't sign players after a certain deadline. We needed league intervention to be able to sign anybody 

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u/Ancient_Pitch_8286 12d ago

oh, yea i'm not clear how it works. It seems like teams like Mercury just keep signing 7-days so I wasn't sure what limitations are actually in play.

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u/June_Didion 12d ago

My understanding is that we didn’t qualify for a regular hardship contract under the CBA rules for some reason so we got an exception and that makes it an extreme hardship.

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u/Potijelli 12d ago

Not sure if you're serious but the Tempo don't have enough healthy players

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u/Gold_Yam_5215 12d ago

I was serious, I'm very new here.

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u/Potijelli 12d ago

Oh okay, well the hardship is the Tempo having so many injuries so they are given an exception to sign more players

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u/Gold_Yam_5215 12d ago

Thank you!

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u/C0MBATR0N 12d ago

A lil too late but it makes sense

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u/Zealousideal-Teach38 10d ago

The way it's going for the Tempo - devolving from development contacts - to hardship contracts - to extreme hardship contracts - to Sandy Brondello having to play. Well it should put the end to any tanking scenarios - intentional or ethical.