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Speaker 1: I'm Matt Murphy back with another episode. The goal is
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Speaker 1: guest for this episode, we're throwing it back to former
Speaker 1: Sixer the mayor Steve Mix. This conversation was originally posted
Speaker 1: on our Bluecoats YouTube channel, so in addition to myself,
Speaker 1: you will also hear my Bluecoats beat co host Joe Richmond,
Speaker 1: who of course is the ambassador of basketball for the Bluecoats,
Speaker 1: and Joe brought the energy as always what else would
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Speaker 1: Very pleased to be joined by a long time Philadelphia
Speaker 1: seventy Sixers player, an All Star, and a former seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers color commentator, the Mayor Steve Mix. We're really looking
Speaker 1: forward to this one, Steve. We're gonna jump right into it.
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us today. What have you been up
Speaker 1: to most recently, well about five years ago, we ended
Speaker 1: up moving down here to Vero Beach, Florida, from Toledo, Ohio,
Speaker 1: and down here I've been putting on, trying to put
Speaker 1: on some basketball camps down here. Not very successful as
Speaker 1: all the All the sports basically is an outdoor sport
Speaker 1: down here. Your football, your baseball, you know everything else.
Speaker 1: Basketball is about the fifth sport down here. But you know,
Speaker 1: I stay in shape by riding my bike, swimming and
Speaker 1: playing golf. Playing golf, I can appreciate that I've been
Speaker 1: trying to get out as much as I can. And Joe,
Speaker 1: I know, Steve is someone you and I have been
Speaker 1: looking forward to chatting with for ever since we've heard
Speaker 1: about it, So it should be a lot of fun. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I'm I'm gonna start off by just I'm gonna
Speaker 1: die right, is Steve? Because Matt Steve had to Steve
Speaker 1: had to deal with you owed me? Was Steve Steve?
Speaker 1: How was that? Well? You know, it was interesting because
Speaker 1: Doug Collins and I came in together back in seventy
Speaker 1: three seventy four, and the year after they won nine
Speaker 1: games and lost seventy three. Fact I was cut from
Speaker 1: the nine and seventy three team, but I came back
Speaker 1: the following year and made the team then, and I
Speaker 1: was I was a comeback Play of the Year and
Speaker 1: then an All Star after that, and then Doc comes
Speaker 1: and he takes my spot, so I become the unofficial
Speaker 1: six man a year. But you know what, it was
Speaker 1: a ton of fun watching watching us as a team,
Speaker 1: you know, with Billy Cunningham and then and then George
Speaker 1: mcginnison and Doc and you know, that whole group of
Speaker 1: guys going through there. I'm thrilled to death that they
Speaker 1: will were able to win a championship. But I was
Speaker 1: on the Lakers team that year that they won, so
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, I was old for four as a
Speaker 1: as a guy that got into the NBA finals, but
Speaker 1: that's okay, I got there. I know guys that played
Speaker 1: in the league for ten twelve years and never even
Speaker 1: made the playoffs. So I had what I considered a
Speaker 1: very good, good career. Wow, quite the comeback story at
Speaker 1: the start of your career. And we will get to
Speaker 1: your NBA and seventy sixers career well also at the end,
Speaker 1: touch on maybe a little bit of your Big Three
Speaker 1: coaching career and some other fun mission topics at the buzzer.
Speaker 1: But before we go there, first things first. With the
Speaker 1: Blue Coats being the NBA G League affiliate of the
Speaker 1: seventy Sixers, what is your connection Steve to the NBA
Speaker 1: G League former league D League. That was interesting because
Speaker 1: what I ended up doing back in nineteen ninety ninety
Speaker 1: two tells you how old I am. Uh Tony de
Speaker 1: Leo came to me and asked me if I wanted
Speaker 1: to go around the league and be their big man coach.
Speaker 1: So I was able to go around that year and
Speaker 1: try to develop the big guys in uh, in the
Speaker 1: D League. There are some guys that I was able
Speaker 1: to help them made it in the NBA, and UH,
Speaker 1: you know you did. You talk to them, you show
Speaker 1: them things, you work with them, but you're only there
Speaker 1: for a short period of time. But I thought I
Speaker 1: was pretty successful in doing that and showing the big
Speaker 1: guys what was what was necessary to get that next
Speaker 1: level up. That was for all the teams in the league.
Speaker 1: All the teams in the league, I went around. They
Speaker 1: had a shooting coach and then they had a big
Speaker 1: man coach, and I was their big man coach. So
Speaker 1: I went around. I traveled around to all the teams
Speaker 1: and tried to help the big guys get to the
Speaker 1: next level. Wow, how about that? That's that's that? But
Speaker 1: that fits right in with who you, Steve, when you
Speaker 1: was with the Sixers six seven six eight Bruiser. You
Speaker 1: came in, you stuck some of the toughest guys on
Speaker 1: the opposite team. You knew how to mix it up.
Speaker 1: I remember that one series against Boston with the almost
Speaker 1: booed you out the gym every time you came. I
Speaker 1: got off the base because you just created havoc every
Speaker 1: time you went down there, moving bodies out of the way.
Speaker 1: And I always told Matt, I know, Doc had a
Speaker 1: joke with you used to call your sky but you
Speaker 1: never really jumped that high. But you were guy. You
Speaker 1: knew how to get into certain places and positioning yourself.
Speaker 1: Playing against the parishes of the world, the Marcus Johnson's
Speaker 1: of the world, the more Reese Lucases of the world.
Speaker 1: You just knew how to position to yourself. And I always,
Speaker 1: I always, I was telling Matt. We when we were younger,
Speaker 1: and you used to get the game, you and Bobby Jones.
Speaker 1: It's like you guys are coming in. It's like somebody's
Speaker 1: about to get their teeth docked out right there. You know.
Speaker 1: It was interesting too, because I mean I had growing up,
Speaker 1: I had two older brothers, you know, and the one
Speaker 1: thing that I always tried to do. I always My
Speaker 1: oldest brother is about eight years older than I am,
Speaker 1: so my goal was to beat him. And I was
Speaker 1: able to beat him when I was in high school.
Speaker 1: And I couldn't beat the middle brother until I got
Speaker 1: into college because he played at the University of Toledo
Speaker 1: as well. And I was taking a butt whooping every
Speaker 1: day from that guy. And I would show up the
Speaker 1: next day and I'm okay, here I am, I'm going
Speaker 1: to get you again. But he put me under his
Speaker 1: wing and took me all the places that he played.
Speaker 1: And I hadn't had a great high school coach and
Speaker 1: college coach and Bob Nichols and then came to came
Speaker 1: to the NBA, and it is interested in the NBA
Speaker 1: because I did not have an outside jump shot at
Speaker 1: the time. So my goal was to develop an outside
Speaker 1: jump shot eighteen foot nineteen foot jump shot was I
Speaker 1: was able to do. And then in the low post,
Speaker 1: tried to develop more low posts moves. So by the
Speaker 1: time I retired after thirteen years in the NBA, I
Speaker 1: had thirteen moves in the low post that I could
Speaker 1: go to that I knew I could get guy up
Speaker 1: off the ground and get in the least contact or
Speaker 1: get to the bucket. Anyway, Oh, speaking to your development
Speaker 1: as a player, We'll talk about the NBA more in
Speaker 1: a second, but I gotta squeeze in a CBA question
Speaker 1: because you did briefly play in the Continental ballotball of
Speaker 1: a minor league. So I feel like everyone who either played, coached,
Speaker 1: was involved with the CBA at all has all types
Speaker 1: of crazy stories. But for those who don't know, where
Speaker 1: did you play and what was it like? Well, it
Speaker 1: was a weekend, weekend tournament, so you would play on
Speaker 1: Fridays or Saturdays or Saturdays and Sundays. And if we
Speaker 1: won the game, I got one hundred and five dollars.
Speaker 1: If we lost the game, I got eighty five. So
Speaker 1: I was working really hard for twenty bucks. And you know,
Speaker 1: so in that league, I was playing for a team
Speaker 1: called Grand Rapids. They're in Michigan, Grand Rapids Tackers. The
Speaker 1: owner owned a carpet company, so obviously the attackers. George
Speaker 1: Gerbin was in that league in the average about forty
Speaker 1: eight forty nine a game, perhaps a season before he
Speaker 1: ended up going to Virginia. Guy out of Michigan by
Speaker 1: the name of Dennis Stewart average about forty. Dennis. With
Speaker 1: my team, I average about thirty eight or forty. In
Speaker 1: our point guard average about twenty two, so three of
Speaker 1: us average almost one hundred points per game. But that
Speaker 1: was where I went to develop my jump shot. That
Speaker 1: was my main goal was let's develop an outside game,
Speaker 1: which I was able to do that year. And you
Speaker 1: won a championship as well, and we won the championship too,
Speaker 1: so I think I got an extra hundred and five
Speaker 1: bucks out of it. We'll have more with Steve Mix shortly,
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Speaker 1: org slash PT. And now in the NBA, you've mentioned
Speaker 1: the longevity you had, You found your footing more than
Speaker 1: ten seasons, most of those coming with the seventy six ers.
Speaker 1: What was the turning point for you in your career?
Speaker 1: Was it that jump shot? I think so. I think
Speaker 1: it was the ability excuse me to go out recognize
Speaker 1: my strengths and my weaknesses, and take my weaknesses and
Speaker 1: develop those ever try to develop those even every single
Speaker 1: day and take my strength and even work on those
Speaker 1: even more so. So once I realized what I could
Speaker 1: do and can't do, that's when I went out and
Speaker 1: worked on on the weaknesses because I knew that was
Speaker 1: preventing me from getting back into the NBA. And once
Speaker 1: I got back in, then it was a matter of
Speaker 1: just knowing the opponent's offense and defenses. So I knew
Speaker 1: what I could do and the opponent themselves, whether they'd
Speaker 1: go for a shot fake or whether they'd close out
Speaker 1: on my right hand if I was on the perimeter,
Speaker 1: and what I could do from that point on. So
Speaker 1: it's a matter of understanding the opponent's offense because I
Speaker 1: was second in the league one year and steals, and
Speaker 1: then also under standing the opponent and what they like
Speaker 1: to do on defensive end. Do they go for the
Speaker 1: punk fakes where they stay on their feet, Can I
Speaker 1: shoot turn around jump shot on him or a little
Speaker 1: fade away. So comparing rors, John bringing you in here
Speaker 1: because I know you want to talk about Steve's style
Speaker 1: of play as well as some of his matchups during
Speaker 1: his career or the team's matchups during his career. But
Speaker 1: I want to I want to bring back to it
Speaker 1: was so amazing as Steve, if you listen to how
Speaker 1: he did, He's all the way around, when he was
Speaker 1: with the G League, going to different teams and when
Speaker 1: he was teaching those guys. It was perfect for someone
Speaker 1: like him because, as you and I know, man, the
Speaker 1: G League is about grinding, and that's who he was.
Speaker 1: He one possession at a time when your guy dawn
Speaker 1: to get to be the successful person you have to
Speaker 1: be so the team could be successful. And that's what
Speaker 1: the G League is about today. Those guys grinding, grinding, grinding,
Speaker 1: so they had the perfect teacher that did it on
Speaker 1: every level. And I'm glad because I kind of see
Speaker 1: why some of those players that you did help get
Speaker 1: to made it because they needed to hear those stories
Speaker 1: and know the type of person you were and your
Speaker 1: personality going into it. But I want to say this,
Speaker 1: you gotta remember I'm of your error, Steve. You were
Speaker 1: my hero pictures. That team was me and my brother,
Speaker 1: my brother. But Mike Richmond played at Utah, got drafted
Speaker 1: at eighty seven by the Dallas Mavericks. But when he
Speaker 1: played at Utah under coach Don Haskins Tiny eight Archer
Speaker 1: Bald was on that staff. Tim Floyd on that staff.
Speaker 1: He also played in the CBA. My brother he played
Speaker 1: the Charlie Rosen, Henry Bibby, Yes, and the Funniest State.
Speaker 1: When he went to school. You gotta remember coming up,
Speaker 1: it wasn't over thousand TV, so all we followed was
Speaker 1: the sixers. And you were the same as my brother
Speaker 1: six seven six eight. You were left handed. Yeah, my
Speaker 1: brother's left handed. If my brother ward number fifty when
Speaker 1: he went to college, Oh, here you go, here you go.
Speaker 1: I love a guy like that, right, that's super. So
Speaker 1: my oldest brother only had you as a you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, as somebody compare him to run because
Speaker 1: he wasn't a superstar player. He had to grind to
Speaker 1: get to where he was. Yeah, my brother was. I
Speaker 1: wish he could be here because he wanted to say
Speaker 1: thank you, but I want to thank you for that
Speaker 1: on behalf because he couldn't believe I was doing this
Speaker 1: interview with you today. Now did he have the same
Speaker 1: motto that I did, run fast, jump high and shoot
Speaker 1: straight one out of three isn't man Because because he
Speaker 1: could really jump high, I couldn't jump high. That's why
Speaker 1: Doc called me Sky. I couldn't run fast, but I
Speaker 1: could get to where I wanted to go. And boy,
Speaker 1: I could shoot. I could shoot the heck out of
Speaker 1: the basketball. So and he had to develop his left
Speaker 1: hand his jump shot just like you, and you were
Speaker 1: the perfect example. So this is awesome. And I know,
Speaker 1: as man, I don't want to take up too much.
Speaker 1: But when you look at the G League and we
Speaker 1: watch it Matt and I, and Matt watches a little
Speaker 1: bit more to me because he goes around. That's what
Speaker 1: those guys have to do is a daily grind and
Speaker 1: game after game after game, series after series. Steve, when
Speaker 1: you came in with that second unit, that's what you
Speaker 1: brought to the table. Man, No load management in the league,
Speaker 1: is there? The whole load management? Now, league, you gotta
Speaker 1: show up every night, show the guys what you got
Speaker 1: otherwise you're gonna be in that league for a long time.
Speaker 1: That's there, absolutely. And Joe, you bring up watching those
Speaker 1: Sixers teams, and I know you were enamored with the
Speaker 1: Sixers Trailblazers and and that whole matchup as well. You
Speaker 1: gotta remember when when Steve played and when it was
Speaker 1: the East coast, you still had the Hawk. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: Rockets in the Spurs was in the East back then, Yeah,
Speaker 1: back is seventy nine in those days, and you know
Speaker 1: it was it was the Washington Bullets, not the Wizards.
Speaker 1: So he was going up against some great guys and
Speaker 1: and and you know, and then it transferred you because
Speaker 1: when the Bucks came in, the Sixes in the Bucks,
Speaker 1: he ever, he's probably to me, was more brutal than
Speaker 1: the Sixes in the Celtics. It was just tough matchup
Speaker 1: all the time. That was a good matchup, yes it was.
Speaker 1: It couldn't beat us, but it was a good matchup.
Speaker 1: But they may but they but they took us to
Speaker 1: six and seven. They gave us. They did that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: no question, And Steve a lot of Doctor Jay stories
Speaker 1: from you, I'm sure, but I want to I want
Speaker 1: to bring up the Big Three because you ended up
Speaker 1: coach Doctor Jay squad in Ice Cubes the Big Three League,
Speaker 1: if I have that correct. Yeah, you know, it's interesting
Speaker 1: because when when when Ice Cube started that a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago that you know, they got their coaches.
Speaker 1: Basically they're all Hall of famers, you know, and Clyde
Speaker 1: Drexler was there that year. He's he's the commissioner now.
Speaker 1: But George Gervin, Gary Peyton, h rick Berry, guys like
Speaker 1: that are the head coaches that first year. So Doc
Speaker 1: called me and asked me if I wanted to be
Speaker 1: his assistant coach, and, uh, you know, after taking a
Speaker 1: look at it, obviously, I said, yeah, if you're there,
Speaker 1: I'm there. So it's been a lot of fun being
Speaker 1: being part of being part of that Big Three League,
Speaker 1: of being his assistant coach. We've had a lot of
Speaker 1: fun together just continuing to be great friends that we
Speaker 1: are and in joining the heck out of each other's company.
Speaker 1: And you even coached one of our former guys in Delaware,
Speaker 1: Nate Robinson, who spent some time in the G League.
Speaker 1: Nates a trip. Nate's a trip. There's no doubt about that.
Speaker 1: You know, he's a he's a funny guy. Um, he's
Speaker 1: just I'll say that he's spirited. That's probably a pretty
Speaker 1: good word, Nade. He's spirited. And but he's very talented.
Speaker 1: And you know, I always felt just watching him play
Speaker 1: coming off the bench for an NBA team a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago, was I think he could have done that,
Speaker 1: but it's hard to get get a big three guy
Speaker 1: back into the NBA one once they're gone. But he's
Speaker 1: a tremendous player. Then we got Maury stottam Meyer on
Speaker 1: the team too. That all these guys are very nice guys.
Speaker 1: They really are very very nice and kind, uh to
Speaker 1: go out of your way to help you and do
Speaker 1: whatever you need to have done. So I want to
Speaker 1: I want to get to our final few questions in
Speaker 1: a moment, but I feel like it's it might be
Speaker 1: necessary for me to leave a bit of a window
Speaker 1: here for Joe to squeeze in any more sixers questions
Speaker 1: or points right now. So take the floor, Joe, if
Speaker 1: you got anything else on the sixers side of the thing,
Speaker 1: I got, I got two things. I got two things. Wheez, Steve.
Speaker 1: First of all, how was it was there any hazing
Speaker 1: or any going after Lionel Hollans? No with that two
Speaker 1: years later and then he comes over I always look
Speaker 1: on TV. It wasn't like I wouldn't be ever messed
Speaker 1: with his locker or moved the sneaks, did you guys?
Speaker 1: You know why that that's something that we never really did.
Speaker 1: You know, if the players just wanted to play hoops,
Speaker 1: you know, they wanted to get out on the court
Speaker 1: and play um. You know. So it was the group
Speaker 1: of guys it was. It was a group that when
Speaker 1: we went to a different city, traveled to a different
Speaker 1: city because we would catch a flight about three I
Speaker 1: don't know, depending on where we were, but you know,
Speaker 1: we would get there and there'd be always six or
Speaker 1: eight of us or so though that would always go
Speaker 1: out to dinner. We were a fairly tight knit group
Speaker 1: that uh. And then wherever everybody went after that, it's different,
Speaker 1: but we would generally six or eight guys would always
Speaker 1: go to dinner and shoot the breeze and have a
Speaker 1: lot of laughs that way. And my second one is,
Speaker 1: you know, like you said that that group was so tight.
Speaker 1: It was a different era, different time, a different way
Speaker 1: of playing and relationships was built. And you've played with
Speaker 1: against so many guys, and guys like Phil Jackson who
Speaker 1: was with the Nuts, and Eddie jordans Man Brederkoff, Tom
Speaker 1: Dono Bitch with the they became coaches in the league
Speaker 1: and things of that nature. But I know at that time,
Speaker 1: because we were so like I said, I was so
Speaker 1: six er loyal would tell him to today. But when
Speaker 1: Harvey Catchings left and he went to the Bucks, how
Speaker 1: was it to play against Harvey and you know that
Speaker 1: relationship and you were one of those main guys that
Speaker 1: was the bruiser the fight. How was well, yeah, you
Speaker 1: know when when Harvey left, it's always sad to see
Speaker 1: the guys that you're friends with go somewhere. My second
Speaker 1: year in the league, I roomed with a guy by
Speaker 1: the name of Tom van Arsdale. My first year back
Speaker 1: with the Philadelphia Thomas traded my second year and I
Speaker 1: really felt bad almost traded. At anytime. You're with a
Speaker 1: guy you know for a couple of years and you
Speaker 1: get to know him and you get to know the family,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden they're trading, and that's the
Speaker 1: nature of the business. Um, you know, it's always a
Speaker 1: sad day, but you gotta go on. You know when
Speaker 1: you play against them, the coach, you're sitting in the
Speaker 1: locker room before the game and the coach asks you,
Speaker 1: what can you tell me about Harvey? Well, Harvey's Harvey's
Speaker 1: a defensive player, but he's a shot blocker. So give
Speaker 1: him a pump fake see if you can get him
Speaker 1: up in the air. You give him the fifteen eighteen
Speaker 1: foot jump shot. If he's out there, don't let him
Speaker 1: drive right, you know, stuff like that. So things you
Speaker 1: have to know. But you're you're you know, once you
Speaker 1: get on the hardwood, it's like, Okay, that's it. They're
Speaker 1: no friends out there anymore. Oh man, that's that. That
Speaker 1: is truly amazing. And I got one quick fun fact.
Speaker 1: I toured with the world famous Haul Them Blue Trotters
Speaker 1: nine five seasons and in nineteen seventy five the six
Speaker 1: is drafted one of the best in sweet Low Dunbar.
Speaker 1: Did you ever get did you play with Natte Wood?
Speaker 1: Nonette was before my time I came. I came in
Speaker 1: two thousand and seven to two thousand and twelve, so
Speaker 1: sweet Lew was my coach. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was
Speaker 1: a sad day to see metal Lark go Curly Neils
Speaker 1: in sad days for globis Yes, Sir Steve. My final
Speaker 1: question at the buzzer. I don't know if Joe has
Speaker 1: anything else after that Globetrotters one, but what was your
Speaker 1: favorite road city during your NBA playing career or as
Speaker 1: a broadcast West West Coast Normally I would I liked
Speaker 1: San Francisco because we generally have a day off and
Speaker 1: I could get a car and up in Napa and
Speaker 1: see some friends up in nap and have a good
Speaker 1: time up there. Um, you know, you get on the
Speaker 1: East coast and January in February, you know, Boston, New York,
Speaker 1: not that not that exciting, Cleveland, Detroit, not that exciting,
Speaker 1: you know. But San fran said, La, there's always a
Speaker 1: lot of fun, And so with San Francisco had a
Speaker 1: lot of friends out in the Phoenix area though too
Speaker 1: in those days, so that was always It's always good
Speaker 1: to get into the sunshine during the season, go see
Speaker 1: some friends and go out to dinner with him. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: I got one quick question, if I can't Matt, go ahead.
Speaker 1: Ye Steve, you was there to watch Dot coming to
Speaker 1: the league, and when he came to the NBA, it
Speaker 1: was like a like it was just something that we've
Speaker 1: never seen. How did you How was it knowing that
Speaker 1: you've been around so long to see all that you
Speaker 1: fire that Doc, that one person went to the league,
Speaker 1: how would you compare with Michael Jordan became who Michael
Speaker 1: Jordan was in the league. Well, you know, we ended
Speaker 1: up because of Doc. We ended up being kind of
Speaker 1: like a rock group. There were there were tons of
Speaker 1: people that filed and then you had Darren, you had
Speaker 1: World and and you know, and people wanted to get
Speaker 1: to the game early just to see our layup line.
Speaker 1: You know, see everybody dunked the basketball. It was crazy.
Speaker 1: And then you know, you had you had fans every
Speaker 1: in every NBA city. There were fans that were cheering
Speaker 1: for you, So it wasn't like you were except for Boston.
Speaker 1: Boston never cheered for you except when we beat him
Speaker 1: in the seventh game and they said bat la But
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, but you know that was and then
Speaker 1: Jordan comes in fan fair to start with. But it
Speaker 1: certainly got a lot better for him as time went on.
Speaker 1: But we were I think we were the first team
Speaker 1: that was kind of like a rock group. Even even
Speaker 1: the Knicks back in the day when they won championship,
Speaker 1: they weren't like that at all. But things have changed
Speaker 1: dramatically in the NBA from from late seventies to today.
Speaker 1: The han't no doubt about that. This was awesome and
Speaker 1: that's gonna do it for this episode. Follow the Blue
Speaker 1: Coats on Twitter at Blue Underscore Coats on Facebook and
Speaker 1: Instagram at Delaware Blue Coats, Steve, thanks so much for
Speaker 1: joining us today, Matt Joel appreciate it. Thank you very
Speaker 1: much for having me. That will do it for this episode.
Speaker 1: Thanks again to Steve Mix and Bluecoats Ambassador of Basketball
Speaker 1: Joe Richmond, and thanks to you the listeners. I'm Matt Murphy.
Speaker 1: Until next time, take it or leave it at the
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