TORONTO -- The Memphis Grizzlies will be dealing with yet another injury when they play the Toronto Raptors on Wednesday at the Air Canada Centre.Point guard Mike Conley is expected to be out for about six weeks with a broken bone in his back.It is bad news for the Grizzlies (11-7), who will be facing a Raptors team that was able to rest some players down the stretch in a 122-95 home win over the Philadelphia 76ers on Monday.The Raptors (11-6) are 5-3 at home and the Grizzlies are 6-3 on the road.Memphis has lost two of its last three after winning six straight. The Raptors have won three in a row.Conley was injured during the third quarter of the 104-85 loss to the Charlotte Hornets on Monday after taking a charge from Michael-Kidd Gilchrist.The Grizzlies said that Conley was diagnosed with transverse fractures in the vertebrae located in his lower back. The injury is expected to resolve itself with rest. Conley is expected to miss six weeks and will be re-evaluated in four weeks.Conley scored seven points in the first four minutes of the third quarter in trying to lead a comeback from a 56-39 disadvantage at the half. The deficit had been cut to 11 points when Conley was injured. He left with 14 points and five assists.There was another setback with Mike leaving the game, Memphis guard Tony Allen said. A lot of guys looked like they were worried. I think the game got away from us at that point.At that point you are only concerned about that guys health, center Marc Gasol said. You just worry if he is OK or not.The Grizzlies said that Vince Carter also was injured early in the fourth quarter on Monday. Carter, a former Raptors star, suffered a right hip flexor strain. He traveled with the team to Toronto and will be listed as questionable for the game.The Grizzlies already have plenty of absences. Chandler Parsons, James Ennis and Brandan Wright are out with injuries. Zach Randolph has missed the past three games after the death of his mother last week.Meanwhile, the Raptors had better news on the injury front. Center Jonas Valanciunas did not play in the fourth quarter Monday because of a minor ankle injury. The ankle was rewrapped and he could have returned but coach Dwane Casey rested him with the game well under control.Hes OK, Casey said.The Raptors concern has been the defensive part of their game. They have kept the opposition under 100 points the past two games. Casey is still not satisfied.We had a lot of defensive mistakes, Casey said Tuesday. Our defensive fundamentals, weve got to continue to work on.The Raptors easily defeated Philadelphia despite getting only 14 points from DeMar DeRozan, who has been averaging 30 per game.Teams are sending extra bodies to him, Casey said. 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RIO DE JANEIRO -- When Michael Phelps arrived in Rio as a 31-year-old swimmer who retired once and endured plenty of turmoil away from the pool, everyone wondered just how many gold medals was a realistic goal.How does six sound?In his first appearance of these Summer Games, Phelps showed he is still capable of the kind of jaw-dropping, did-he-really-just-do-that? performances that already made him the most decorated Olympic athlete of them all.Going second in the 4x100-meter freestyle relay, Phelps produced the fastest split of his career and put the Americans out front for good against a powerhouse field that included defending champion France, Australia and Russia.It was a down-and-back swim that showed Phelps, as usual, is in peak form on the biggest stage and perfectly capable of winning every race he enters at his fifth Olympics.Michael usually works this way: When one thing is good, everything is pretty good, said his longtime coach, Bob Bowman. It doesnt usually work in parts. So I feel pretty good now.He has every reason.Phelps will be back at the pool Monday for the preliminaries of the 200-meter butterfly, a title he is especially eager to reclaim after an ill-timed finish let South Africas Chad le Clos snatch away the gold at the 2012 London Games.Phelps will also compete in the 100 fly and 200 individual medley, as well as two more relays.His confidence is soaring after he turned in a time of 47.12 seconds in the relay, which was faster than all but three other swimmers in the field -- all of them anchors on the medal-winning teams and specialists in the 100 free.In fact, it was faster than any of his relay splits at the last three Olympics. Yep, even faster than the one he produced at the height of his career in 2008, when he broke Mark Spitzs longstanding record with eight gold medals in the Great Haul of China.I hope thats a good sign, Phelps said. I guess well see over the next couple of days. But Im very pleased with the start.France had high hopes for defending the title it won four years ago in London, only to be doomed by another Phelps masterpiece.As fast as my teammates were, the extraterrestrial that is Phelps was faster, said Fabien Gilot, who had the unfortunate task of swimming the second leg for the now-silver medalists.Gilots time was more than a second slower than Phelps, which was essentially the deciding factor in the race. The French were faster on the first and third legs, and anchor Jeremy Stravvius was only 0.dddddddddddd14 slower than the last American swimmer, Nathan Adrian.The Australians, with plenty of big names of their own, settled for the bronze. They didnt mind being on a lower rung of the podium, considering who was on top.Its always great to see a fairytale like that unfold in a race youre a part of, James Magnussen said.Phelps showing was reminiscent of the dominance he showed last summer in San Antonio, where he competed in a low-level meet because he was banned from the world championships as part of his punishment for a second drunken-driving arrest. Thoroughly motivated, Phelps put up times that were faster than the ones winning at worlds.The DUI proved to be a turning point in Phelps life, prompting him to under six weeks of inpatient therapy, give up drinking, reconnect with his estranged father, and find a new purpose in his life away from the pool.He wound up getting engaged and becoming a father for the first time. His infant son, Boomer, was in the stands Sunday night, nuzzled in the arms of mother Nicole Johnson, the roaring crowd kept at bay by noise-canceling headphones.Still, this was all a bit of a surprise after Phelps turned in some rather lackluster times at the U.S. Olympic trials just a month before the Rio Games.About a week ago, during a final training camp in Atlanta, Phelps did a 100 free time trial. At that point, according to Bowman, his spot on the 4x100 free relay was very much in doubt.He was very much into it, Bowman said. He wanted to do it. I felt like we had to give him that chance. He hadnt really done a good 100 free in the season. I felt like after we got out of San Antonio, I knew he was so much better. So he needed to do that.As usual, Phelps came through.It was the fourth-fastest flat-start time of the year, Bowman said. That kind of automatically put him in the game.Now, its clear that Phelps has peaked at just the right time, eager to close his career on top after initially retiring four years ago coming off the London Olympics.Hes in a good place now, Bowman said. Everything Ive asked him to do, hes been really good at, way better than before trials.Suddenly, six gold medals seem very much in reach.---Follow Paul Newberry on Twitter at www.twitter.com/pnewberry1963 . His work can be found at http://bigstory.ap.org/content/paul-newberry . ' ' '