Every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, we pose a question to a rotating panel of ESPN fantasy basketball experts to gauge their thoughts on a hot topic. Todays contributors are ESPN NBA writer Ohm Youngmisuk and ESPN Fantasys Kyle Soppe and Joe Kaiser.Mike Conley is expected to miss the next six to eight weeks due to a transverse process fracture in his back. Should fantasy owners drop Conley? How should they go about replacing him?Joe Kaiser -- The right path of action with Conley comes down to two main factors: 1) Whether your league has any IR spots available and 2) Where your team is in the standings through five weeks of the season. If an IR spot is available, Conley is a top-50 player who is worth stashing in virtually every league. Case closed.If an IR spot isnt offered in your league, thats where your teams early-season standings come into play. On teams that are off to a slow start and making the playoffs already seems like a long shot, keeping a player like Conley, who could miss two months or more is foolish. His roster spot is too valuable, and by the time he returns, you could very well be in last place. The best thing to do is cut him and move on, as hard as it may be. The only scenario where Conley is worth keeping in a non-IR league is if your team is off to a dominant start and can afford to go with one fewer available roster spots for the next six to eight weeks.Replacing him with anything near the same value will be darn near impossible; Conley is currently No. 14 on ESPNs Player Rater, to give you an idea of how strong of a start he has had this season. His combination of points (19.2), assists (5.7), steals (1.4) and 3-pointers (2.5) wont be matched by anyone you can get off the waiver wire, so youll have to either orchestrate a trade or try to replace his stats via free agency with players like Matthew Dellavedova for assists, Thabo Sefolosha for steals and Courtney Lee for 3-pointers. Not ideal, but its what has to be done.Ohm Youngmisuk --? It really is a tough blow for Conley owners because the Grizzlies point guard had been playing at an All-Star level. What to do with Conley? If you are already trailing in your league standings and maybe in a league with 10-to-12 teams, maybe you can think about cutting him for a replacement. But I would lean more toward holding on to Conley. A source said Conleys timetable could be closer to four to six weeks. You just wont find a point guard on the waiver wire who will be able to average 19.2 points, 5.7 assists, 1.4 steals and shoot 46.7 percent from beyond the arc.Obviously, in deep leagues, you are stashing Conley. But unless your waiver wire has someone like Sean Kilpatrick (who will get plenty of minutes and shots, even when Jeremy Lin returns, and is available in more than 60 percent of ESPN leagues) or Lin (available in more than 40 percent of leagues and might be back soon) or Reggie Jackson (available in more than 30 percent of ESPN leagues), Id say stash Conley and try to be aggressive in cutting someone else on your roster for someone on the waiver wire who might be a steadier and more consistent producer and hope Conley is back in a little over a month from now.Kyle Soppe -- This is a tough blow for Conley owners, but I think you are grinning and bearing it if at all possible. Due to shallow benches in ESPN standard leagues, I get it if you simply cant afford to, but Conley has been a top-10 point guard on the Player Rater this season and ranks eighth among points guards in PER. Keep an eye on his status, but Im giving him at least a month on my bench and seeing how the recovery process plays out before making a long-term decision on him.As for a replacement, that is part of the argument for keeping Conley rostered. The point guard depth isnt all that great, so replacing Conley the same way the Grizz figure to with Andrew Harrison is very much in play for fantasy owners. Hes obviously very raw, but at 6-foot-6, he is a tough matchup, and he should assume a greater role than most other available point guards on your waiver wire. If Harrison has already been scooped up, Kris Dunn and Seth Curry are two viable options who are owned in too few leagues right now. Replacing Conley with a free agent is going to be difficult ... maybe consider a buy low option? 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The sport moved a step closer to returning to South Florida on Wednesday, when Beckham confirmed he has exercised his option to purchase a Major League Soccer expansion franchise in Miami. NEW YORK -- Parity is a prickly little creature to genuinely warm up to sometimes in sports. For all the wishing and waiting over the years for some new faces to rise up and reliably trouble Serena Williams like her sister Venus or Justine Henin and Kim Clijsters used to, the truth is Williams hold on the sport has elevated womens tennis to places its never been.Williams dominance is what made Germanys Angelique Kerber realize if she was ever going to win majors, she had to hunker down and change in dramatic ways and become even fitter, tougher and mentally stronger. Just better in every way.Karolina Pliskova, the upstart across the net from Kerber in their riveting three-set US Open final Saturday, in recent weeks came to understand the same thing.In the end, what their final came down to was a classic clash of styles and a case of the Player of the Year trumping the Player of the Month. Kerber, a three-time Grand Slam finalist in 2016, was already set to eclipse Serena for the No. 1 ranking come Monday morning even if she hadnt outlasted Pliskova, the hottest player in the sport these past three weeks, for a 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 victory that played out Saturday afternoon in sweltering 90-degree heat.But this was about more than just one match. There was a point deep in the third set when their showdown was so good and the switchbacks so hard to predict, you found yourself hoping both of these players can find a way to stick around at the top, troubling Williams at tournaments to come, finding new things in their own games, going to more places theyve never been. Because if this is the level at which womens tennis is going to stay long after Serena, who turns 35 on Sept. 26, is gone, the sport will be in a fascinating place.Williams has been displaced at No. 1 now and then -- by the likes of Victoria Azarenka or Maria Sharapova, who are both off the tour now. But until Kerber, no one has shown the staying power to stitch a few major wins together, let alone established herself as Serenas heir apparent the way Roger Federer so clearly did when he was first chasing Pete Sampras.The dynamic in the womens game during Williams reign is similar to what Federers countryman, Stan Wawrinka, described Friday as the mood in the mens game: Players felt they were going to lose before they ever took the court.Thats not the feeling in womens tennis anymore. Not after this year. Kerber beat Williams in the Australian Open final. Garbine Muguruza beat Williams in the French Open final. Williams beat Kerber for the title at Wimbledon. Then Pliskova beat Serena in the semifinals here, and had Kerber on the run until red-lining in the last two games of the match.In the end it was New Faces 3, Serena 1. But it was interesting to watch -- just in a different way than Williams extraordinary ruun to three of the four Slam titles last year.ddddddddddddI think its a nice change, Pliskova said, as you might expect.I think Im ready to have this pressure [of being No. 1] on my shoulders, Kerber said after their match. I think I get used to all of this, especially after my first Grand Slam in Australia. I had so much pressure after the title. Being No. 1, of course, now everybody will try to beat me and have nothing to lose.I will try to take this challenge.At 28, Kerber isnt exactly a new face in tennis. But she is a new presence at the top. It will be interesting to see how Williams responds to chasing her down now because this is different too: Unlike some of the other times Williams lost the No. 1 ranking, it didnt happen this time because of Williams injuries or indifference.Kerber took it from her by cobbling together a great nine months.And Pliskova? She felt like a revelation here even more than Muguruza did at the French Open. Muguruza played some fearless, powerful tennis that day, but hasnt been able to back it up much since. Just as her title did, the 24-year-old Pliskovas tear to the championship in Cincinnati three weeks ago, and the final here at the Open, raised the question, what took her so long to make this kind of breakthrough?Pliskovas serve and booming forehand give her two of the best weapons in the game. The story making the rounds during her 13-match winning streak she rode into Saturdays final was Pliskova was finally so sick of losing in general, and never getting past the third round of a major in particular after losing early again at Wimbledon in July, she canceled her plans to go to the Olympics for the Czech Republic. She decided instead to concentrate on preparing for the US Open and summer hard-court season in the States. Now look at her.Pliskovas game has the sort of amplitude that draws gasps from the crowd. Her arms and legs are so long, she actually looks taller than her listed height of 6-foot-1, and shes not only powerful -- its an easy power she brings. Her serve sits between 110 and 115 mph and she rarely looks like shes straining to snap off any of her shots. You only get a sense of how hard shes actually hitting from the crack of the ball off her racket, and then the way it accelerates off the bounce and hurries out of reach. Against Kerber, she won 28 of her 38 points at the net, something shes trying to add to her game.If Kerber really is up to the challenge of defending her No. 1 ranking and Pliskova can build on this eye-opening run, they wont be one-year or one-month blips. They could help keep Serenas final years in tennis more fascinating than anyone projected when this year began. ' ' '