NEW ORLEANS -- Pelicans coach Alvin Gentry confirmed Monday that?Jrue Holidays return to the team is imminent.Holiday missed the preseason and each game so far this regular season to tend to his wife, former USWNT soccer player Lauren Holiday, as she recovers from the birth of the couples first child and surgery to remove a benign tumor from the right side of her brain.Not anything definite, but its probably going to be at some stage within the week, for sure, Gentry said. Maybe within a couple days.The Pelicans are 2-9 this season, worst in the Western Conference, but the team has said throughout Holidays absence that there has been no pressure on him to rush back.All of the guys realize what hes been through and how tough its been for him, Gentry said ahead of Mondays matchup with the Boston Celtics. Not just the fact that hes going through the thing with his wife, but to have a newborn kid also is extremely tough. Thats why we wanted him to do it on his terms, when he felt comfortable enough to come back, so he could just play basketball and kind of not worry so much about everything else thats going on. He wasnt going to be able to do that until he was comfortable with his wife and comfortable with his kid.The Holidays have spent the opening of the season in Raleigh, North Carolina, area near the Duke University medical specialists who handled the surgery for Lauren, a two-time gold medalist and 2015 World Cup winner.A league source said?Holiday?is in great shape, but the Pelicans are expected to limit his minutes as he works his way back into game condition. The Vertical reported last week that Holiday was expected to return within the week.Holiday, 26, was limited to a combined 74 games in his first two seasons in New Orleans because of right leg injuries, but he broke through in 2015-16, averaging 16.8 points and six assists with a career-high 19.7 player efficiency rating in 65 games. His season was cut short after he fractured the orbital wall of his right eye during a game, but he did not miss a game because of his right leg, besides planned absences in the first half of the season.My family comes before basketball, Holiday told the Times-Picayune in early September. Im obviously blessed to play this game and be in the position I am in, but my wife is the most important thing in the world to me. She comes before anything else.New Orleans plays Wednesday in Orlando, followed by home matchups against the Portland Trail Blazers on Friday and Charlotte Hornets on Saturday. Fake Hurricanes Jerseys . -- Jacksonville wide receiver Cecil Shorts will likely be a game-time decision whether hell play Sunday in the Jaguars home game against the San Diego Chargers. Carolina Hurricanes Store . The incident occurred at 19:56 of the second period of the Kings 4-2 road win over Edmonton on Sunday. 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Indias T Gopi and Kheta Ram put up a creditable show, breaching their personal bests to finish 25th and 26th, respectively, in the mens marathon on the last day of competitions in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday. The other Indian in the fray, Nitender Singh Rawat, finished 84th with a timing of 2:22:52.Clocking 2:15:25 and 2:15:26, respectively, Gopi and Kheta improved upon their personal bests of 2:16:15 and 2:17:23. Kheta climbed his way from a lowly 84th at one stage to finish among the top 30.Kenyas Eliud Kipchoge clocked 2:08:44 to win gold in a field of 155 runners. In all, 15 marathoners -- including big names such as Stanley Biwott (Kenya) and Tesfaye Abera (Ethiopia) -- did not finish the race.A hawaldar in the Indian Army, Gopi completed the first 5km in 15:44, to be placed 73rd. Climbing to 55th position thereafter at the end of 20km with a timing of 1:02:48, Gopi was followed by Kheta and Rawat in 68th and 73rd places, respectively.dddddddddddd At the end of 30km, both Gopi and Kheta made good progress and moved up by 13 and 15 spots, respectively. Fellow armyman Rawat, however, dropped 10 places with a timing of 1:38:07 to be ranked 83rd at the 30km mark.Gopi was brought in for the Mumbai marathon earlier this year to act as a pacesetter to help Rawat -- who had already qualified for the Olympics -- improve his timing. Kheta was hoping to make the 2:19 cut-off. The plan was that Gopi would run no more than the first 30 km of the Mumbai marathon. Instead, the 27-year-old from Kerala had held on and finished 11th overall to qualify for the Games. It was Gopis first full-marathon experience. ' ' '