- Team
- Toronto Tempo
- Position
- Forward
- Number
- #8
- Height
- 6′5″ (1.96 m)
- Age
- 26 years
- Born
- Feb 26, 2000
About Nyara Sabally
Satou's younger sister also played college basketball at Oregon and was drafted fifth overall by the New York Liberty in 2022, winning the title with them in 2024. The new Toronto Tempo took her in the 2026 expansion draft, and she had the best season of her career there.
Season stats
2026 season · 24 games
Nyara Sabally has finished the 2026 season with the Toronto Tempo and is currently injured. Over 24 games, she averaged 12.3 points, 5.3 rebounds and 1.7 assists in 23.9 minutes per game. That is a clear step up from 2025, when she put up 5.4 points, 4.5 rebounds and 0.8 assists. Her three-point shooting stood out at 39.2 percent, compared with 14.3 percent a year earlier. The best of her last five games came at Golden State, with 21 points, 6 rebounds and 3 assists, and she grabbed 12 rebounds in Atlanta. She averaged 15.0 points and 7.6 rebounds over those five games, above her season marks, but Toronto lost all five.
| Season | GP | MIN | PTS | REB | AST | FG% | 3P% | FT% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 24 | 23.9 | 12.3 | 5.3 | 1.7 | 52.7% | 39.2% | 72.0% |
| 2025 | 17 | 17.9 | 5.4 | 4.5 | 0.8 | 48.7% | 14.3% | 68.0% |
| 2024 | 26 | 13.5 | 4.9 | 4.0 | 0.6 | 57.5% | 0.0% | 70.0% |
| 2023 | 33 | 7.9 | 2.3 | 2.1 | 0.2 | 42.4% | 22.2% | 75.0% |
Last games
| Date | Opp | Result | MIN | PTS | REB | AST | FG% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08/12 | @ DAL | L88-94 | 17 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 3-7 |
| 08/10 | @ ATL | L95-107 | 29 | 12 | 12 | 3 | 5-12 |
| 08/06 | @ POR | L83-97 | 24 | 17 | 5 | 1 | 5-13 |
| 08/04 | @ GS | L81-92 | 32 | 21 | 6 | 3 | 8-12 |
| 08/02 | @ GS | L79-96 | 25 | 19 | 8 | 1 | 6-12 |
Highlights
- Toronto Tempo vs. Connecticut Sun | FULL GAME HIGHLIGHTS | September 24, 2026Game recapWNBA · 10:53
- Nyara Sabally - 12 Points, 4 Steals, 12 Rebounds vs Dream - 2026 WNBAPlayer highlightsCourtVision · 2:39
Nyara Sabally's career
Nyara Sabally started playing basketball with TuS Lichterfelde. She is the younger sister of Satou Sabally, who also plays in the WNBA. At the 2018 FIBA U18 Women's European Championship she won gold with the German junior national team and was named the tournament's MVP.
From 2018 to 2022 Sabally played college basketball for the Oregon Ducks in NCAA Division I. Two torn ACLs kept her sidelined for long stretches, but she was named to the All-Pac-12 team in 2021 and 2022. The New York Liberty selected her fifth overall in the 2022 WNBA Draft. A knee injury forced her to miss the 2022 season. From 2023 she was part of the Liberty roster, winning the Commissioner's Cup that year and the WNBA championship in October 2024. In the 2023–24 season she played for USK Prague, with whom she became Czech champion. From January 2025 she played for Fenerbahce Istanbul and won the Turkish title in spring 2025. In April 2026 the Toronto Tempo took her fourth overall in the expansion draft.
Sabally made her debut for the German national team on 9 November 2023. At the 2024 Olympics in Paris the team reached the quarterfinals. At the 2026 World Championship in Berlin, the team reached the semifinals and finished fourth, the best result ever for a German women's team at a World Championship. Afterwards Sabally was named to the tournament's All-Second Team. The 196 cm forward is currently injured.
Facts from: Wikipedia (de), Wikipedia (en), Wikidata