Forward Chandler Parsons debut for the Memphis Grizzlies has been bumped up to Sunday afternoons home game against the Portland Trail Blazers.Parsons originally planned to wait until Tuesday night to play, according to league sources, but he was declared ready after a phenomenal pregame workout Friday night.Felt great in workout. Im ready to rock, Parsons told ESPN in a text message. No reason to wait.Memphis signed Parsons, widely considered the most high-profile free-agency addition in franchise history, to a four-year, $94 million maximum contract in July despite his previous two seasons ending prematurely with surgeries on his right knee. Concerns about the knee prompted the Dallas Mavericks to decline to make a serious bid to keep Parsons after he opted out of the final season of his contract last summer.The Grizzlies exercised extreme caution, as Parsons recovered from arthroscopic surgery to repair a torn meniscus in the knee -- an operation he underwent in March -- less than a year after having a more complicated hybrid microfracture procedure on the knee. Parsons didnt begin full participation in Memphis practices until the week before the regular season began and sat out the Grizzlies first six games.Parsons reported no problems with the knee since he started full-speed workouts, but conditioning is a concern after such a lengthy layoff and with little practice time to work his way back into shape.The Grizzlies are off to a 3-3 start and need the scoring punch and playmaking the 6-foot-10 Parsons can provide. Memphis is averaging 95.0 points per 100 possessions, the leagues fourth-worst offensive rating.Parsons will likely start on a minutes restriction in the low 20s. He got off to a slow start last year when he dealt with strict minutes restrictions early in the season, but the Grizzlies gave him more time to work into a rhythm than he got a year ago, when he pleaded to play in the first week of the season.Parsons played the best basketball of his career last season before reinjuring the knee, averaging 18.9 points, 5.9 rebounds and 3.2 assists per game while shooting 51.9 percent from the floor and 47.7 percent from 3-point range over a two-month span.Custom Dallas Mavericks Jerseys . PETERSBURG, Fla. Steve Nash Mavericks Jersey . The defence is doing its part, too. 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Now 31, she has 230 international appearances, ranking her seventh in national team history. She has 46 career goals with the team, 12th on the national team career list, and 54 assists, good for sixth.She has won three Olympic gold medals with the team, as well as a World Cup title last summer in Canada.I have spent nearly half my life in a U.S. Soccer uniform, so making the decision to retire from international play was incredibly hard and emotional, OReilly said in a statement Thursday. But quite simply, after 230 caps, thousands of practices, many trips around the world, and having played in three World Cups, and three Olympics, it just feels like the right time.Ive had an incredibly complete career playing for my country and it has been an absolute honor to represent the USWNT for the last 15 years. Im leaving this team with a lot of happiness in my heart and pride for what weve accomplished. I truly love this game and it will be in my life forever.OReilly played her first match at the senior level in 2002 during the Algarve Cup against Sweden. At the 2004 Athens Olympics, OReilly scored the winning goal in overtime for a 2-1 U.ddddddddddddS. semifinal victory over Germany. She was the youngest player on the team.OReilly subbed in for Mia Hamm in her final match in 2004 and wore Hamms No. 9 jersey for the rest of her career.At the 2008 Beijing Games, she scored 40 seconds into a group-stage match against New Zealand. She scored again in the 4-1 semifinal victory over Japan.Probably her most memorable goal came at the 2011 World Cup in Germany against Colombia. Struck at distance, it was a finalist for goal of the year.Heather has been a vitally important part of our program for many years and has continued to set a standard for professionalism and work ethic, U.S. coach Jill Ellis said. Shes been right in the thick of things for most of our big moments over the past 15 years and has always been the ultimate team player and a world-class person. She should be incredibly proud of the indelible impact shes made on this team and on womens soccer.OReilly was an alternate on the U.S. team that played at the Rio de Janeiro Games last month. The Americans were ousted in the quarterfinals by Sweden for the teams earliest Olympic exit.OReilly said she will continue to play for FC Kansas City of the National Womens Soccer League. ' ' '