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一 |     今日NBA消息，来自达拉斯独行侠。    BANGKOK -- The first group of Thai workers evacuated from Israel after the past few days’ bloody events in southern Israel and Gaza arrived Thursday in the Thai capital of Bangkok, greeted by anxious relatives and senior officials.Hamas militants stormed through a border fence Saturday and killed hundreds of Israelis in their homes, on the streets and at an outdoor music festival. The Israelis have responded with punishing airstrikes and preparations for a possible ground invasion. The conflict has claimed at least 2,600 lives on both sides, including some Southeast Asian workers living in Israel.The 41 Thais who returned home on a commercial flight of the Israeli airline El Al included two men wounded in the violence who had to use wheelchairs to exit the aircraft.Farm laborers from Thailand seek work in more developed countries where there is a shortage of semi-skilled labor — at wages considerably higher than they can earn at home.Tens of thousands of workers in Israel from nations including Thailand and the Philippines send their earnings home to support their families. That money also helps to fire up their native countries’ economies.But the appearance of Thais and Filipinos on the lists of dead, wounded and missing in the past few days is a reminder that foreign workers toil in peril of their lives.About 30,000 Thais are working in Israel, according to the Thai Foreign Ministry, and about 5,000 of them live in the southern area near the border with Gaza.One of them, Katchakorn Pudtason, said his employer at the farm where he worked initially herded all his workers into a bunker when Saturday's attacks took place, but after they left it for lunch they could still hear shooting. As they were being driven back to their workplace, Katchakorn heard more gunshots and felt something hit his knee, he said.“I thought it was a rock but it went through. So I hit the truck and told the driver to drive away,” he said. He added that he was one of four people in the vehicle who suffered injuries that day. He was one of the two returnees who had to use a wheelchair.Thailand's Cabinet ministers for labor, defense and foreign affairs were at Bangkok's international airport for the evacuees' arrival. The government has vowed to look after the evacuees' physical and mental well-being.Foreign Minister Parnpree Bahiddha-Nukara said 5,990 Thais have registered to be evacuated and officials are working around the clock to accommodate them.“We need a Plan B to take out as many people as possible,” said Defense Minister Suthin Klangsaeng. “We will use military aircraft to evacuate people from the high-risk area to a third country, such as (the United Arab Emirates).”The number of Thais affected by the tragedy stood out in lists of non-Israeli nationals affected by the violence: Thailand’s foreign ministry Thursday said 21 Thais are believed dead and 14 wounded. Sixteen were believed to have been taken hostage.Survivor Chatree Chasri left his home in northeastern Thailand in 2019 to work in Israel as an agricultural laborer to pay off debts and provide for his wife and two children back home in Nakhon Phanom. Foreign work is a common path for Thais from the country’s economically disadvantaged rural areas, especially the northeast.Working under a government-to-government agreement, the 38-year-old has been farming tomatoes and cauliflower for the past four years in the southern Israeli town of Mivtahim, less than 10 kilometers (6 miles) away from Israel’s border with Gaza.Despite the occasional shelling and rocket attacks that sent him running for cover, his life at the farm had been OK until Saturday, he said from Israel in a phone interview with The Associated Press. Now he says he wants to come home, and never go back to Israel.Chatree was shot several times in his hip shortly after Hamas launched its rocket attacks and shock ground offensive into southern Israel, killing hundreds of people and capturing more than 100 who were hauled back to Gaza as hostages.Chatree was using a toilet at the farm where he works with other foreign laborers when he suddenly heard gunshots.“The sounds came closer and bullets went through the wall of the toilet,” he said, recalling the moment he was hit. He then saw two gunmen making their way into the workers' living quarters and open fire, so the workers fled outside to hide.Vibhavadi Vannachai, a Thai expatriate who has lived in Israel for nearly two decades and is coordinating with Israeli authorities to help the Thai workers, fears the number of victims may rise.Vibhavadi, originally from Nong Bua Lamphu province in Thailand’s northeast, works as an interpreter in a legal office whose cases mostly involve resolving disputes between Thai workers and their employers.She said abuse and violations of their rights are common, with many bound by years-long contracts but cheated of their wages. Many are forced to work long hours and are beaten if they refuse. Some have to live in “quarters that are not fit for human beings,” she said.Vibhavadi helped find temporary accommodations for Chatree and Padoong Bootmo, a 26-year-old Thai worker shot on Saturday who said the potato and yam farm where he works in Yesha was raided twice by gunmen and then burned down. Padoong said in a phone interview he had been able to send 40,000 baht ($1,100) home each month. He might under the best of circumstances make less than half that doing the same job in Thailand, but he said he doesn’t want to stay in Israel anymore.The killing of at least two Filipino foreign workers underscored the threats also faced by those workers in Israel. About 30,000 Filipinos live and work in the country many as caregivers who look after the elderly, the ill and those with physical disabilities, according to the Philippines' foreign ministry. The huge income they send back home, which last year amounted to an all-time high of $36.14 billion, has helped keep the country’s fragile economy afloat.One of the two Filipinos killed Saturday was a caregiver who was shot with her employer inside their house by Hamas gunmen, according to the Philippines Embassy in Israel. The other was killed under still-unclear circumstances.At least three Filipinos remain missing, embassy officials have said.Still, Foreign Undersecretary Eduardo de Vega said Wednesday that no Filipino has asked to be repatriated from Israel. Jeremiah Supan, a 34-year-old Filipino caregiver in Israel, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview Wednesday that he made it clear to Philippines officials he did not want to return home. As the family breadwinner, he sends his earnings home to enable his 10-year-old son to remain in school and sustain other loved ones."The rocket firings continue” Supan said. “But if I leave, all that assistance that I send to my family back home will be lost.”___Gomez reported from Manila. Associated Press writer Grant Peck contributed.。         根据NBA名记Marc Stein报道，联盟多队正在密切关注欧文的情况，并且已经做好了随时交易的准备。         对于这句话，虽然简单，但背后的信息量属实不小；虽然已经是34岁的伤后老将，但欧文在同阶段年龄球员中的市场价值，依旧属于联盟第一梯队。

二 |          而从独行侠视角看，现在球队已经并非过去围绕东欧为核心的季后赛球队了，随着东契奇被送到了湖人，独行侠也开始重新确定未来核心弗拉格。         既然球队方向已经180度转弯，那么问题就来了：          对于34岁的欧文，还会是独行侠未来计划中的一部分吗？          同样也是来自于记者Marc Stein的报道，今夏休赛期，独行侠多次回绝联盟各队对于欧文的交易报价；但即便如此，等到明年2月11日交易截止日之前，独行侠能否守住立场依旧是一个疑问。         随后美媒Basketball Ground也更新动态，晒出一则讨论：          “NBA球队仍在密切关注凯里·欧文在达拉斯的处境，独行侠已经表示不想交易欧文，但其他NBA球队都在猜测，赛季开始后情况是否会发生变化。

三 | 欧文已经34岁，而弗拉格只有19岁。

四 | 两位球星年龄差距如此大，夺冠窗口不一致，许多球队都预计达拉斯会在不久的将来交易欧文。”          理性来看，欧文留在达拉斯依旧是暂时的，等到合适的时间窗口出现，他大概还是会被摆上货架。

五 |          结合球队现状来看，独行侠确实正在进行一场年轻化改造，诸如华盛顿、加福德、克里斯蒂等人，今夏或多或少都被卷进了交易流言，欧文自然就不例外了。         只不过相比于其他人，独行侠对欧文的态度要暧昧得多，虽然没有明确宣布欧文属于非卖品，但也没有主动放弃欧文。         从这种模棱两可的处理方式来看，独行侠对于欧文的态度很明显，就是在等待市场报价；独行侠并非不想卖，而是这个时间点的卖价不够满意。         特别是欧文上赛季遭遇左膝重伤，对于34岁老将，这种级别的伤病足以让任何球队三思后行；所以，独行侠现在最聪明的做法，就是留下欧文，参考他复出后的状态而定。         如果他和弗拉格能建立化学反应，届时再卖，相比于现在的低价甩卖就又是两个概念了。         特别是参考近期独行侠曝光的训练内容看，确实给了市场足够多的底气。即便训练视频不能完全代表比赛状态，但至少从目前来看，欧文的恢复进度相当不错。

六 |          而目前市场上也已经出现了一些潜在方案，其中热度最高的下家，就是休斯顿火箭。         结合球队现状来看，火箭现在最欠缺的，就是一个能在关键时刻拿球解决问题的一号位，如果能把欧文放进火箭，那这套阵容就完全不一样了。         参考美媒曝光的方案计划，具体交易内容如下：          火箭送出：范弗利特、泰特，27年首轮和29年首轮；          独行侠送出：欧文，28年次轮。         除了火箭之外，猛龙也是近期美媒曝光的潜在追求者中热度相当高的一队，具体方案如下：          猛龙送出：奎克利、贾科比·沃尔特，28年首轮；          独行侠送出：凯里·欧文。

七 |          所以，最后把讨论留给球迷：          对于欧文，你觉得现在的他还能换到多少筹码呢？。

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