Marina Mabrey, Brittney Sykes Agree to Historic Max Contracts with WNBA's Tempo

The Toronto Tempo agreed to two-year deals "at about the max" contract value with guards Marina Mabrey and Brittney Sykes on Friday, according to ESPN's Alexa Philippou.

Per Philippou, Mabrey and Sykes will make up the first known million-dollar backcourt pairing in WNBA history.

Toronto selected Mabrey in the league's recent expansion draft after she spent the 2025 season with the Connecticut Sun.

While she was heading into unrestricted free agency at the time the Tempo selected her, they gave her their core designation that allowed them to hold exclusive negotiation rights.

Mabrey is coming off a 2025 campaign in which she averaged 14.4 points, 4.2 rebounds and 4.0 assists per game while shooting 36.7 percent from the field.

Although she only connected on 27.0 percent of her threes, Toronto will hope that she can find some more consistency from behind the arc after she hit 37.5 percent of her triples from 2022-24.

As for Sykes, she earned the first All-Star nod of her career in 2025. She opened the season with the Washington Mystics before she was traded to the Seattle Storm.

Sykes averaged 14.1 points, 4.0 assists and 1.2 steals per game on 38.1/30.4/78.1 shooting splits across 39 combined appearances with the Mystics and Storm last season.

Mabrey and Sykes are now set to headline a Tempo roster that also includes Nyara Sabally, Lexi Held, Aaliyah Nye and Nikolina Milić.