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		<title>Linsanity is good recipe for MSG</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div><div id="articleFull" class="articleFull" readability="22"><p><span class="articleBegin">J</span>eremy Lin’s two-week streak of basketball success and off-court buzz has been a slam dunk for investors in Madison Square Garden Co., owner of the New York Knicks.</p>
<p>The publicly traded company’s stock — MSG on the Nasdaq — has soared 12 percent since the Harvard University grad’s first start in a Knicks uniform Feb. 4.</p>
<p>“It certainly seems like it’s been going up because of Jeremy Lin,” said Ben Blatt, a Harvard junior and member of the student-run Sports Analysis Collective.</p>



<p>The group has turned its blog over to researching Lin, recently comparing the unheralded point guard’s debut to those of established stars Carmelo Anthony and Amare Stoudemire, in terms of MSG stock boosts.</p>
<p>But Susquehanna Financial Group analyst Vasily Karasyov stuck a pin in the Lin market bubble, saying the rationale behind the run-up is as emotional as Lin after he hits a game-winning three-pointer. Karasyov noted that game tickets already had been sold out for a while, and retail sales tied to Lin would make up a small slice of MSG’s overall business.</p>
<p>“People think as long as the Knicks keep winning games, the stock will keep going up,” Karasyov said. “But is it a better investment than it was a few weeks ago? No.”</p>
<p>Blatt sees a bright future for Lin, predicting the Taiwanese-American’s international appeal will eclipse that of China’s Yao Ming, whose career with the Houston Rockets was cut short by injury.</p>
<p>“The interesting thing about Lin is his game play is more exciting to watch,” Blatt said. “He’s not just some big tall guy, he’s all over the court.”</p>
<p>And Wall Street.</p>
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    NEW YORK — Amare Stoudemire was bouncing around the New York Knicks locker room after his team’s win over the Dallas Mavericks on Sunday, doling out high-fives and congratulating each of his teammates, telling forward Steve Novak, “That’s how you shoot it,” and patting Jared Jeffries on the back with a, “Beautiful game.” Stoudemire’s fellow Knicks received his outsize enthusiasm with smiles and hand shakes. It was as if Stoudemire was using his ebullience to head off potential questions about his limited role (11 points on 4-for-10 shooting) in the win, nipping controversy before it blossomed.
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    “We are out to win,” Stoudemire said. “That’s the most important factor for us right now, winning and winning and winning. We are doing it by any means.”
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    Those means, it turns out, could be much different than the ones on which the Knicks thought they’d be relying when the season began. Now, those means probably include more limited production from the team’s two highest-paid players, Stoudemire and Carmelo Anthony, and most certainly include more of an emphasis on point guard Jeremy Lin, along with <a href="http://aol.sportingnews.com/nba/story/2012-02-19/carmelo-anthony-lures-jr-smith-new-york-knicks-reap-immediate-rewards">new shooting guard J.R. Smith</a> and guys like Jeffries and Novak. Lin and Smith were not on the team’s opening-day roster, and Novak was signed four days before the season started.
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    Knicks players agreed that Sunday was their best performance of the year, one in which six players reached double-digit scoring and the team dished out 21 assists—the fourth time in the last five games they have hit 20 assists, something they did just nine times in their first 27 games.
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    “I think this is the best team effort we have had all year,” center Tyson Chandler said. “We have individual stars on different nights, but tonight I feel like we were really hitting on all cylinders. We have a bond. You can see it.”
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    Enter Anthony, back from 14 days off with a groin injury. It’s unfair to assume Anthony will be Kryptonite to the Knicks' new-found chemistry, that he is a square peg in what has become a well-rounded offense. That will take time to determine.
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    “I don’t know,” guard Landry Fields said. “I don’t want to predict the future. We’ll see how it works when we see how it works.”
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    Anthony is not coming back to the same team he left. The team he is rejoining wins, wins a lot and does it with Lin making plays in the lane. That means it will take an adjustment on the part of Anthony, who is not the kind of standstill shooter that would normally thrive playing with Lin’s pick-and-roll game.
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    Anthony has been the offensive focal point nearly every game he has played since high school. Now he will have to be just another part of the team, and he must be willing to take as little as, say, 10 shots on some nights. He did that when helping Team USA to the Olympic gold medal in 2008, but that was playing with LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Kobe Bryant—can he do the same with Lin, Smith and Novak?
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    Much of this will fall on coach Mike D’Antoni, who has chosen his words on the matter carefully. He understands that managing egos will be as important as Xs and Os. Anthony is still a premier scorer, and there has to be a way for him to contribute while letting Lin do his thing. Just as important, D’Antoni must make sure Lin does not shrink in the face of Anthony’s star power, that he continues to be aggressive and not over-defer to Anthony.
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    In other words, D’Antoni has to convince Anthony to adjust to Lin, not vice-versa.
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    “We should be really good,” D’Antoni said. “We just have to get there. Our chemistry has to get right and everybody has to adjust to everybody. That might not be perfect for the first week, but the potential is there. It is our job as coaches and their job as players to maximize our potential. We have a lot of players, some might not play at the end of the game, some might play 10 minutes, while others might play 20 minutes. We go with the feel.”
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    Stoudemire, so far, has done that—been willing to adjust to everybody and still be buoyant in the locker room. Now, it’s Anthony’s turn.
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<p><strong>(Sports Network)</strong> – The Dallas Mavericks hope to bounce back this evening when they welcome the struggling Boston Celtics to the American Airlines Center.</p>
<p>Dallas became the latest victim of Linsanity on Sunday, as it saw its six-game winning streak come to an end with a 104-97 loss to the New York Knicks. The Mavericks were paced by Dirk Nowitzki’s 34 points, while Shawn Marion added 14 points and Jason Terry had 13.</p>
<p>The Mavs led by as many as 12 in the third quarter and entered the final stanza with a three-point edge. The Knicks, fueled by Jeremy Lin, outscored the defending champs 32-22 in the final 12 minutes.</p>
<p>“I thought we had the game under control, and then the fourth quarter, that really got the crowd back into it,” Nowitzki said.</p>
<p>The Mavs are home for the next three games. They are 12-5 in their building this season.</p>
<p>Boston, meanwhile, is struggling and lost its third straight game on Sunday, falling to the Detroit Pistons, 96-81.</p>
<p>Paul Pierce netted a game-high 18 points, Chris Wilcox scored 14 and Ray Allen had 13 in Boston’s fifth loss in six games.</p>
<p>Rajon Rondo had 10 assists, but turned it over six times and shot just 1-for-6 from the field before getting ejected late in the third quarter for sharply flipping the ball at referee Sean Wright.</p>
<p>“We weren’t playing well at that point (Rondo’s ejection), but we were certainly in a position where we could have won,” Allen said.</p>
<p>Kevin Garnett missed the game because of personal reasons and his status for tonight’s affair is not known. Brandon Bass will also miss the game because of a left knee injury.</p>
<p>Dallas beat the Celtics back on January 11 and has won the last three in the series. Boston has also lost eight of 11 and 12 of 16 in Dallas.</p>
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<p><br />Just saw that the <a href="http://www.sbnation.com/nba/teams/houston-rockets" class="sbn-auto-link">Rockets</a> <a href="http://www.sbnation.com/nba/players/71942/chase-budinger" class="sbn-auto-link">Chase Budinger</a> will participate in the NBA dunk contest on All-Star Saturday night. Don't buy the stereotype, Budinger can dunk. Coming out of high school he came in 2nd in the McDonald's All-American dunk contest to <a href="http://www.sbnation.com/nba/players/71912/gerald-henderson" class="sbn-auto-link">Gerald Henderson</a> who went to Duke.</p>&#13;
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<p>Of course I'd rather see a dunk contest with <a href="http://www.sbnation.com/nba/players/21851/lebron-james" class="sbn-auto-link">LeBron James</a>, <a href="http://www.sbnation.com/nba/players/71901/blake-griffin" class="sbn-auto-link">Blake Griffin</a>, <a href="http://www.sbnation.com/nba/players/21602/dwight-howard" class="sbn-auto-link">Dwight Howard</a>, and <a href="http://www.sbnation.com/nba/players/24285/kevin-durant" class="sbn-auto-link">Kevin Durant</a>, but the established pros have refused to participate for the last decade or so. I still like the dunk contest though and some of the originality has come back. From <a href="http://www.sbnation.com/nba/players/4354/gerald-green" class="sbn-auto-link">Gerald Green</a> blowing out a cupcake sitting on the rim, to <a href="http://www.sbnation.com/nba/players/21914/steve-nash" class="sbn-auto-link">Steve Nash</a> passing the basketball off of his head soccer style to <a href="http://www.sbnation.com/nba/players/21911/amare-stoudemire" class="sbn-auto-link">Amare Stoudemire</a>, to <a href="http://www.sbnation.com/nba/players/35084/javale-mcgee" class="sbn-auto-link">JaVale McGee</a> dunking on two goals; the young guys have revived the dunk contest. The Saturday night events are always my favorite part of the weekend, hopefully the young guys don't disappoint this year.</p>&#13;
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<p>The 4 contestants this year are Chase Budinger, rookie <a href="http://www.sbnation.com/nba/players/150099/derrick-williams" class="sbn-auto-link">Derrick Williams</a> of the <a href="http://www.sbnation.com/nba/teams/minnesota-timberwolves" class="sbn-auto-link">Timberwolves</a>, rookie <a href="http://www.sbnation.com/nba/players/150069/iman-shumpert" class="sbn-auto-link">Iman Shumpert</a> of the <a href="http://www.sbnation.com/nba/teams/new-york-knicks" class="sbn-auto-link">Knicks</a>, and <a href="http://www.sbnation.com/nba/players/111927/paul-george" class="sbn-auto-link">Paul George</a> of the <a href="http://www.sbnation.com/nba/teams/indiana-pacers" class="sbn-auto-link">Pacers</a>. If I had to pick now, I'd take Paul George.</p>&#13;
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<p><span class="dateline">NEW YORK</span> — Jeremy Lin grabbed a spot on the bench next to Carmelo Anthony in the third quarter and shared a laugh with the injured All-Star.</p><p>"We were just having fun and kind of talking about how we're both excited for when he comes back," Lin said.</p><p>Hey 'Melo, no need to rush. Lin and the Knicks just keep on winning.</p><p>Lin put aside his record-setting scoring to hand out a career-best 13 assists, and New York got back to .500 with its seventh straight victory, 100-85 over the Sacramento Kings on Wednesday night.</p><p>Lin added 10 points, focusing more on his role as a distributor while others torched the Kings for 51 percent shooting. Landry Fields had 15 points and 10 rebounds, while Bill Walker and Steve Novak each chipped in 14 points as the Knicks put seven players in double figures for the first time since April 5, 2009, at Toronto.</p><p>"As a point guard, my field goal attempts have been really high and I don't think that's necessarily good," Lin said. "I think it's more of my job to distribute and get people in rhythm."</p><p>Lin scored 136 points in his first five starts, most by any NBA player since the NBA merged with the ABA in 1976. His 3-pointer with 0.5 seconds left Tuesday allowed the Knicks to pull out a 90-87 victory in a game they trailed nearly the whole way.</p><p>The Knicks (15-15) led this one almost throughout, evening their record for the first time since they were 6-6 after a loss to Oklahoma City on Jan. 14. They host hapless New Orleans on Friday, hoping Anthony will return from a strained right groin.</p><p>Lin, the reigning Eastern Conference player of the week, played 26 minutes before checking out for good late in the third quarter.</p><p>"We wanted to be aggressive, make it hard for (Lin), but he still ran the team and got assists," Sacramento's Tyreke Evans said. "They made shots. It seemed like they were making everything tonight."</p><p>Evans scored 19 points for the Kings, who had won four in a row in New York. DeMarcus Cousins added 15 but shot only 7 of 18 and grabbed just four rebounds.</p><p>Already the NBA's biggest story, Linsanity had peaked about 24 hours earlier with the former Harvard guard's winner in Toronto. The shot was replayed on the overhead video board at the Garden, triggering a huge ovation as if it had just happened live.</p><p>But Lin would have few other scoring highlights, taking only six shots.</p><p>Fans, quite a few wearing Lin's jerseys or holding masks of his face, loved it anyway. They chanted "MVP! MVP!" as he was interviewed on the court after the game and held up signs such as "Lin Your Face," ''Linderella," and — of course — "Marry Me Jeremy."</p><p>"It's crazy. Thank you for the energy as always," he said to the crowd.</p><p>Then he was peppered with an array of questions usually reserved for superstars, from his thoughts about President Barack Obama watching him, to whether it was time to get a new haircut.</p><p>But for Lin, the only focus is basketball.</p><p>"I knew him before he was Linmania. He's still the same humble guy," Kings coach Keith Smart said. "The guy has not changed a bit, which is real special for a young man."</p><p>Lin played last season in Golden State for Smart, who praised Lin's work ethic and attitude, but never imagined "the perfect storm" that would lead to these results.</p><p>"It's good Monday morning quarterbacks are here now, but no one could have predicted this guy being this big in this place here," Smart said before the game.</p><p>Lin opened the game with a three-point play, giving him nine straight points dating to late Tuesday, but passed more than shot as the Knicks scored easily in the first half. Lin beat the defense with penetration and dishes to shooters, or by throwing lob passes over the top.</p><p>The Knicks led 25-17 after one quarter, then blew it open late in the second. Novak converted a four-point play, Lin hooked up with Fields for an alley-oop dunk, then made a free throw to cap a run of seven straight points and make it an 18-point game. The Knicks closed the scoring when Lin drove and threw a wraparound pass to Tyson Chandler for a dunk with 1.7 seconds left, extending it to 54-36.</p><p>"I just thought we played really exceptionally well the first quarter," Knicks coach Mike D'Antoni said. "Just the ball was moving, every time we drew up a play they ran it perfectly. Every time I think there was an opportunity to make a great pass, they did it."</p><p>Lin had six points and nine assists in the first half. He found Fields for a layup that made it a 25-point game early in the third, and the Knicks coasted from there.</p><p>Notes: Kings rookie guard Isaiah Thomas was booed when his name was announced after checking in late in the first quarter. The names are pronounced the same, but he's not related to former Knicks coach and president Isiah Thomas. "I knew it was going to happen here," Thomas said. "I was expecting something. Spike Lee told me next time you come to New York, you better change your name." ... The Knicks last won seven in a row near the end of last season. ... Former vice president Al Gore and ex-heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson were at the game.</p><p>___</p><p>February 16, 2012 03:21 AM EST </p><p>Copyright 2012, The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.</p>
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            <p>The plot keeps thickening - all of it seemingly from Hollywood - and so do the puns.</p>

            <p>At its core are the elements of a compelling underdog  epic - rejection, persistence, setback, surprise, triumph and some luck.</p>

            <p>Jeremy Lin was never offered an athletic scholarship, was never drafted by an NBA team, was dropped by the Golden State Warriors and the Houston Rockets and was days away from being let go by the New York Knicks.</p>

                
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            <p>But after star players Amare Stoudemire and Carmelo Anthony were unable to play in early February, the Knicks turned to Lin.</p>

            <p>And he has responded in amazing fashion.</p>

            <p>Lin, a 23-year-old Harvard University economics graduate, has produced the best five-game starting debut in modern NBA history.</p>

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            <p>His averages of 23.3 points and 7.4 assists surpass those of such legends as Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, LeBron James and Shaquille O'Neal.</p>

            <p>"Linsanity" was born, and even Barack Obama, the President of the United States - a big basketball fan - was <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-15/obama-catches-linsanity-watching-highlights-of-knicks-player.html"><strong>taking notice</strong></a>.</p>

            <p>"He's the greatest story in sports right now," Knicks teammate Jared Jeffries said of Lin.</p>

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            <p>"He was five or six days from being cut and now he is a catalyst for a team that's playing as good as any in the NBA ... You can't ask any more of a kid coming into this situation."</p>

            <p><strong>Dismissed, overlooked and undervalued </strong></p>

            <p>The 191-centimetre son of two 168-centimetre engineers from Taiwan, Lin had been dismissed, overlooked and undervalued as a basketball player.</p>

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            <p>A former editor of his high school paper, the As on his report card were as straight as the edge of a ruler.</p>

            <p>Only six weeks ago, this came from Lin's <a href="https://twitter.com/jlin7"><strong>Twitter</strong></a>: "Everytime i try to get into Madison Square Garden, the security guards ask me if im a trainer. LOL."</p>

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            <p>Now he's a basketball rock star and NBA great O'Neal can't stop singing his praises.</p>

            <p>"Linderrella story of the year," O'Neal <a href="https://twitter.com/shaq"><strong>tweeted</strong></a>.</p>

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            <p>The success of Lin has spawned a seemingly unending number of Lin-puns, including Lintense, Linning, Lincredible, ThrillLin, Lin and a prayer, Super Lintendo, VaLintine's Day, Linderella and of course, Linsanity.</p>

            <p>On February 20, Lin will be on the cover of <em>Sports Illustrated</em>, the US sports magazine announced yesterday.</p>

            <p>"It's been pretty surreal," Lin said about his sudden fame.</p>

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            <p>"I'm just really trying to wake up every day and enjoy it, soak it all in; at the same time stay focused."</p>

            <p>Wake up where? Usually, the couch in brother Josh's one-bedroom apartment on the Lower East Side of New York.</p>

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            <p>On the web, fans can buy "Lin Your Face" and "LIN.Y.C." shirts from the site www.linsanity.com.</p>

            <p>The domain names Linsanity.com, Lincredible.com, JeremyLin.com and TheJeremyLinShow.com have already been registered.</p>

            <p>In Asia, Lin's popularity is the highest of any NBA player since the retirement of former Houston Rockets centre Yao Ming of China.</p>

            <p>"Lin-Sanity: Coming from Behind to Score Five Wins in a Row", Taiwan's mass-circulation <em>United Daily News</em> roared across its front page after another successful weekend for Lin, the first US-born NBA player of Chinese descent.</p>

            <p>"Hao the God: Writing a New York Legend", the Taipei-based <em>China Times </em>said, coining a nickname based on the basketball prodigy's Chinese name, Lin Shu-hao.</p>

            <p>Taiwanese sports journalists have gone into overdrive to unveil new tidbits of Lin-ology, interviewing relatives in central Taiwan and excavating long-forgotten examples of academic work that got him into Harvard.</p>

            <p><strong>A star is born?<br /></strong></p>

            <p>Lin is devout and open about his beliefs. He's NFL quarterback Tim Tebow in short pants. Except, Tebow was a first-round draft pick, while the NBA passed on Lin.</p>

            <p>A star is born? This is a Linderella story that's made intriguing stops along the way.</p>

            <p>From Taiwan to Palo Alto to Harvard to summer leagues and developmental teams and aborted stays with Golden State and Houston.</p>

            <p>Now to Broadway.</p>

            <p>Linsanity.</p>

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        <p><a class="sbn-auto-link" href="http://www.sbnation.com/nba/players/21911/amare-stoudemire">Amare Stoudemire</a> had a rather somber week as he returned home to mourn the death of his brother, who was killed in a car accident last week. The <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="http://www.sbnation.com/nba/teams/new-york-knicks">New York Knicks</a> forward has had time to clear his head and plans to return to the court on Tuesday night for his team's game against the <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="http://www.sbnation.com/nba/teams/toronto-raptors">Toronto Raptors</a>.</p>
<p>Stoudemire has missed the past several games, along with <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="http://www.sbnation.com/nba/players/21501/carmelo-anthony">Carmelo Anthony</a>, allowing the <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="http://www.sbnation.com/nba/players/112004/jeremy-lin">Jeremy Lin</a> show to happen as the Knicks have gone on a winning streak. After practice on Monday, Stoudemire <a href="http://espn.go.com/new-york/nba/story/_/id/7570963/new-york-knicks-forward-amare-stoudemire-returns-team" >told ESPN New York</a> that watching Lin exceed expectations was one of the few things keeping him upbeat while back home.</p>
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<p>"The only positive for us during that whole week was we were watching the basketball games and we were watching Linsanity," Stoudemire said following practice on Monday. "My family was getting a kick out of it. That's the only smiles they really had all week. It was great to see that. It's been a tough week."</p>
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<p>It'll be interesting to see how the Knicks look with Stoudemire back in the lineup considering Lin has kind of made the Knicks his team over the past five games, but SB Nation's Tom Ziller wrote on Monday that the <a href="http://www.sbnation.com/nba/2012/2/13/2793257/jeremy-lin-effect-new-york-knicks-hook" >team's new point guard should have a positive effect on STAT</a>:</p>
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<p>The impacts on Amare are less explosive, primarily because he desperately needed someone like Lin all along. Stoudemire will take a number of Chandler's pick-and-roll touches, at least immediately. If he thrives in that role, Lin will be heralded at the savior of S.T.A.T. If success doesn't come, those whispers about Stoudemire's end as an effective player will become audible. This season Amare has had the crutch of the team's lack of a point guard to deflect those concerns. With Lin in place, that excuse goes out of the window.</p>
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<p>That sounds good in theory, but it'll be a whole 'nother thing to see if it actually plays out that well against the Raptors on Tuesday night.</p>
<p><i>For more on Stoudemire and the Knicks, visit <a href="http://www.postingandtoasting.com/">Posting and Toasting</a> and <a href="http://www.newyork.sbnation.com/">SB Nation New York.</a></i></p>
        
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