hugegin
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NBA Most Fouls Drawn This Season: 443 — Luka Doncic (60 GP) 399 — Jaylen Brown (64 GP) 382 — Nikola Jokic (57 GP) 376 — Devin Booker (57 GP) 372 — Deni Avdija (57 GP) 365 — Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (60 GP) 351 — Victor Wembanyama (57 GP) 348 — Jalen Brunson (67 GP)

SGA SHOVES Derrick White and gets 2 free throws. Derrick White NEVER TOUCHED SGA






How is Luka Doncic not atop the MVP convo right now? He's in a different airspace come crunch time. Pure skill on display.


How is Luka Doncic not atop the MVP convo right now? He's in a different airspace come crunch time. Pure skill on display.



Let’s definitely add 2 more teams



Spot on with the Singapore-Dubai parallel - but the stakes are even more explosive than most realize. If the PRC launches its long-planned invasion of Taiwan, it will need to make sure the United States stays out of it. That means it must first neutralize America’s nearest major forward-deployed force which is the US 7th Fleet based in Yokosuka, Japan. We’re talking 60-70 warships, 150-180 aircraft, and over 27,000 personnel. To keep that fleet out of the fight, Beijing would have no choice but to strike Japanese soil and bases preemptively - dragging sovereign Japan directly into the war. Japanese PM Takaichi enraged the Chinese for merely saying that this constitutes a "survival-threatening situation" for Japan and implying that Japan might be drawn into the conflict. The 7th fleet relies on logistics and sustainment from Task Force 73 / Logistics Group Western Pacific which is headquartered in the Republic of Singapore. Singapore’s role as the critical maintenance, resupply, and repair hub for US naval forces in the region makes it Target #2. Just like Iran hit UAE facilities for hosting American support, the PLA would have to take out Singapore’s ports, airfields, and logistics nodes to choke off the flow of fuel, ammo, and spares. In other words, there's a huge potential for a regional cataclysm: direct attacks on Japan and Singapore, the Malacca Strait turned into a war zone, global shipping paralyzed, and the entire US-led alliance structure under fire. The idea that China is pursuing “peaceful development” is hard to believe when you consider its military buildup - hypersonic missiles, carrier-killers, anti-access/area-denial systems - that seem to prepare them to deal with exactly this problem of a regional fight for control and navigation of the seas. Not many people are aware that there are 3,000 active Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) troops on rotational deployments throughout each year in Taiwan. While this is for military training (it's been ongoing since 1975), this could further complicate things for Singapore in a Taiwan conflict scenario. These troops might be trapped or become bargaining chips during a blockade or invasion. Anyway, tl;dr: Singapore likely won't be able to stay out of it as the chokepoint it sits in will probably come into play









