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. Colin White Senators Jersey . Boucher previously coached the Tampa Bay Lightning and had a 97-78-20 record over two-plus seasons. He was dismissed by the team last March after the Lightning struggled in the lockout-shortened season with a 13-18-1 record. Brady Tkachuk Jersey . The 17-year-old native of Marystown, N.L., pulled out of Skate Canada International last month in Saint John, N.B., with the same problem. http://www.senatorssale.com/authentic-mikkel-boedker-senators-jersey/ . The 29-year-old Baines has established himself as one of the top attacking full backs in the country and was the subject of two bids from United during the last off-season. Everton manager Roberto Martinez says that keeping Baines at the club is a "massive boost and exciting for the future" because he brings "maturity and football knowledge in a very specialized position on the pitch" and an "infectious and positive influence to the rest of the squad. Brady Tkachuk Senators Jersey . Cuban testified Thursday that he was upset when the companys CEO told him news that would reduce the value of his shares, for which hed paid $7.5 million. But he said he did nothing improper when he sold those shares over the next two days. Ottawa Senators Jerseys . 4 Villanova with a 96-68 drubbing on Monday. Wragge hit 9-of-14 from behind the arc, matching Kyle Korvers school record for 3-pointers in a game set in 2003, as Creighton (16-3, 6-1 Big East broke a conference record with 21 treys in the rout. CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas -- Rashawn Thomas scored 23 points with six rebounds and four steals and Texas A&M-Corpus Christi used a strong first half to defeat NAIA St. Marys (Texas) 77-67 on Friday night.Ehab Amin added 15 points with six rebounds and seven steals, which tied the school record, and Joseph Kilgore had 10 points for the Islanders (6-2), who led 36-18 at the half.A 12-0 run in the first half put the Islanders up 22-10 and the lead was 25 with less than seven minutes to play.Yanni Wetzell had 19 points and nine rebounds for the Rattlers, who used the game as an exhibition.dddddddddddd Ed Seay added 14 points and eight rebounds as St. Marys outrebounded the Islanders 40-24, including 18-6 on the offensive end.The Islanders shot 50 percent and made 23 of 26 from the foul line. They had 17 steals on 21 St. Marys turnovers.The Rattlers shot 40 percent but made only 6 of 23 3-pointers and went 11 of 13 from the foul line. ' ' '