The Grizzlies have announced that Mike Conley will play Friday against the Kings, marking a much earlier return for the star point guard than Memphis previously had anticipated.Conley was expected to miss six weeks after suffering transverse process fractures in his lower back on Nov. 28, according to the projected timetable released by the team the next day.However, Conley recently resumed basketball activities and pushed to come back sooner. The team announced on its official Twitter account that Conley would be active and would play, but the veteran point guard told reporters that he still needed to be evaluated before the game.Tonight Ill be re-evaluated, Conley told reporters after going through shootaround. Hopefully, Ill have the opportunity to play. Well see.It is not the first extraordinary display of toughness from Conley, who played in the 2015 postseason despite a facial fracture.Memphis made two roster moves Thursday to clear the way for Conley to come back. The Grizzlies said veteran point guard Toney Douglas has been waived and rookie point guard Wade Baldwin IV has been re-assigned to the franchises D-League affiliate.Memphis also announced Thursday that rookie forward Deyonta Davis will miss up to eight weeks after tearing the plantar fascia in his left foot Tuesday night in a loss at Cleveland.Forward Chandler Parsons, who has been out since Nov. 19 due to a bone bruise in his left knee, and forward James Ennis, who has missed the past three weeks with a strained calf, have been ruled out for Fridays game.The Grizzlies fared surprisingly well without their star point guard, winning seven of the nine games that Conley has missed. Douglas played a key role in Memphis recent success, averaging 5.8 points, 2.7 rebounds and 2.7 assists in 17.8 minutes in the seven games he played for the Grizzlies after the team used a roster spot created by the NBAs hardship rule to sign him.Conley was putting up the best numbers in his career before being injured when he collided with a Charlotte Hornets player after taking a charge. This past summer, Conley signed a five-year, $153 million deal -- the largest contract in NBA history -- to stay in Memphis.?He has averaged 19.2 points, a career high, and 5.7 assists in 17 games for the 18-9 Grizzlies.Information from The Associated Press was used in this report. Chipper Jones Jersey .com) - The Montreal Canadiens will try to halt their longest losing streak of the season when they host the struggling New York Islanders in tonights clash at the Bell Centre. Hank Aaron Jersey Large .com) - The Edmonton Oilers and Vancouver Canucks both take aim at their first wins of the season on Saturday, as the Canucks open their home slate at Rogers Arena. http://www.custombravesjersey.com/custom-mike-lum-jersey-large-887z.html . The 15th-ranked Canadian men lost the opening two games of their European tour: 19-15 to No. 17 Georgia and 21-20 to No. Phil Niekro Jersey . Scott Kazmir allowed four hits in seven shutout innings, Michael Brantley hit a two-run homer in a three-run first inning and the Indians maintained their hold on an AL wild-card spot with a 4-1 win over the Houston Astros on Saturday night. Deion Sanders Jersey Large . No. 13-seeded John Isner and No. 21 Philipp Kohlschreiber were among six players who dropped out of the tournament on Tuesday, joining No. 12 seed Tommy Haas and two other players who withdrew on Monday. ESPNs Bowl Cup Challenge was created in 2002 as a competition among conferences to see which one can end bowl season with the best record.This challenge is 100 percent about bragging rights.Which conference is most likely to emerge victorious in 2016? Can the SEC rally from a down year with a big bowl run? Or will the Big Ten emerge victorious this December and January?With the help of FPIs bowl projections (available here), we will break down which conferences are most likely to have the best and worst bowl records this season. Obviously each conferences record is dependent on individual matchups, but below you will find a projected winning percentage for each conference, ordered best to worst. The AAC is the most likely conference to walk away with the bowl challenge trophy, while the MAC is the least likely.ddddddddddddYou may notice that each projected winning percentage is not a simple W-L record. It also may not match the number of games a conference is favored in. Thats because if a team has a 51 percent chance to win it should lose that game 49 percent of the time. Adding up each conferences projected wins (a 51 percent chance to win equates to 0.51 expected wins) and dividing by the total number of games produces the truest measure of a conferences expected bowl success. ' ' '