CNOTES 2020-2021 NBA TRENDS, NEWS, BEST BETS AND OPINIONS THRU THE PLAYOFFS !

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557LA CLIPPERS -558 DALLAS
DALLAS are 65-45 ATS (15.5 Units) after playing a road game in the last 3 seasons.




NBA
Dunkel

Friday, June 4

NBA
Armadillo's Write-Up

Friday, June 4

LA Clippers @ Dallas
Clippers
? Clippers lost nine of their last 15 games overall.
? You?re reading armadillosports.com
? Clippers are 4-2 ATS in last six road games.
? Under is 12-4-1 in last 17 Clipper games.
? Clipper starters? plus/minus:
Games 1-2: combined minus-134
Game 3: even
Game 4: +98
Game 5: +19

Mavericks (lead series 3-2)
? Mavericks won 12 of their last 17 games overall.
? Mavericks are 3-5 ATS in last eight home games.
? Over is 7-3 in last ten Dallas games.
? Doncic scored 31-39-44 first three games, 19 in Game 4, 42 in Game 5.
? Dallas was 55-109 on arc in Games 1-3, 5-30 in Game 4, 14-36 last game.

? Road team won all five series games.
? Teams split last 12 meetings overall.
? Clippers are 4-1 ATS in last five trips to Dallas.
? Under is 6-2 in last eight series games.




NBA

Friday, June 4

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Trend Report

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LA Clippers @ Dallas
LA Clippers
LA Clippers is 4-1 ATS in its last 5 games when playing on the road against Dallas
LA Clippers is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing on the road against Dallas
Dallas
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Dallas's last 5 games when playing at home against LA Clippers
The total has gone UNDER in 7 of Dallas's last 9 games when playing LA Clippers


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FRIDAY, JUNE 4
GAME TIME(ET) PICK UNITS

LAC at DAL 09:00 PM
DAL +3.0
O 216.5



BEST BETS:


06/02/2021...............2 - 2 - 0................- 1.00
06/01/2021...............4 - 1 - 0................+14.50


Totals:......................6 - 3 - 0................ + 13.50

 

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BEST BETS:

06/04/2021...............0 - 2 - 0................-11.00
06/02/2021...............2 - 2 - 0................- 1.00
06/01/2021...............4 - 1 - 0...............+14.50


Totals:......................6 - 5 - 0................ + 2.50

 

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Saturday?s 6-pack
Odds to win the Big X football title:
7-5? Oklahoma
13-5? Iowa State
4-1? Texas
12-1? Oklahoma State
20-1? TCU
50-1? Baylor, Kansas St, West Virginia
60-1? Texas Tech
300-1? Kansas

Quote of the Day
?I got to make somewhat of a decent living in college.?
Johnny Manziel, claiming he was paid to sign autographs while he was at Texas A&M

Saturday?s quiz
Johnny Manziel played in 14 games, starting 8, for which NFL team?

Friday?s quiz
Bill Belicheck was the last coach of the Cleveland Browns, before they moved to Baltimore and became the Ravens; he was 37-45 as coach of the Browns.

Thursday?s quiz
2004 was last time a Pac-12 team won the college football national title, when USC won; Pete Carroll was their coach that year.

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Saturday?s Den: Clearing out a cluttered mind??..

13) June 4, 2016, the White Sox acquired pitcher James Shields from San Diego; he went 16-35, 5.31 in 76 dismal starts for Chicago, after having been 114-90 up to that point in his career.

What makes it (a lot) more disturbing is who the White Sox gave up to get Shields; P Erik Johnson and a young outfielder, Fernando Tatis Jr.

Whoops.

12) I enjoy fantasy baseball, but it can be freakin? baffling, especially if you have a pitcher from the Tampa Bay Rays on your team.

Josh Fleming is on my team, and I have zero idea, none, how they decide when to take him out of games:
? April 19, they took him out when he was throwing a 1-hitter in 6th inning (65 PT)
? May 16, they took him out when he was throwing a 1-hitter after 5 innings (53 PT)

Why do you take guys out when they?re on a roll?

Then last night in Texas, they leave him in to throw 100 pitches when he was giving up a lot of hits- he gave up five runs on 10 hits in seven IP. Yarbrough had thrown a complete game the day before, so their bullpen was fresh. No idea how they do things, not that they care what I think.

11) Only one major league pitcher has ever thrown a no-hitter on his birthday; George Mullin threw a no-hitter for Detroit on his 32nd birthday, way back in 1912.

10) So far this season, American League teams are 59-50 vs their NL rivals.

9) There have been 11 times where a player hit a walk-off homer in consecutive games; last time it happened was 2011, when Albert Pujols did it.

8) Clippers 104, Mavericks 97 (series 3-3):
? Kawhi Leonard scored 45 for the Clippers.
? Road team won all six series games.
? Clippers outscored Dallas 31-20 in 4th quarter.

This is the 9th series in Dallas history where they led 3-2 in games; they won the first eight series. We?ll see how they do in Game 7 Sunday.

7) Wish the NBA playoffs was all best-of-3 series until the Finals, which could be best-of-5; just think it would be more interesting if there was a better chance of an upset.

Understood that money rules, so the more games the better, but the shorter series would make it more like March Madness, and would likely increase TV ratings.

6) Portland Trailblazers fired coach Terry Stotts after nine years; he went 402-318 in the regular season, but 22-40 in playoffs- his Blazers made the playoffs the last eight seasons.

5) Royals 14, Twins 5? Kansas City led 13-2 in the 2nd inning. No bueno. Royals are quietly 29-26, only two games out of the 2nd Wild Card slot in the American League.

4) Padres 2, Mets 0:
? Blake Snell took a no-hitter into the 7th inning.
? San Diego has won its last 12 home games.

3) They?re going to bring the USFL back? Seriously? Back in the 80?s, the USFL was a good spring football league with some legit stars- Jim Kelly, Steve Young, Herschel Walker. It was good football, but off-field issues sabotaged the league.

Now they?re talking about a re-boot in 2022; the XFL is also supposed to be starting up again next year. Sounds like a busy spring/summer next year.

2) There are 43 bowl games scheduled in college football this fall; this week, I found a printout of spreads from the 1981 bowls- there were 15 bowls back then.

1) Mike Zimmer has been head coach of the Minnesota Vikings for seven years; he is the longest tenured coach in the NFL right now, who hasn?t been to the Super Bowl. He is 64-47-1 in regular season games, only 2-3 in playoff games.

 

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[Udog]

561MILWAUKEE -562 BROOKLYN
BROOKLYN is 10-1 ATS (8.9 Units) in home games versus explosive offensive teams - scoring 110+ points/game - 2nd half of the season in the current season.




NBA
Armadillo's Write-Up

Saturday, June 5

Milwaukee @ Brooklyn
Bucks
? Milwaukee swept Miami 4-0; they?ve won 7 of last 8 games overall.
? Bucks are 7-4-1 ATS in last dozen road games.
? You?re reading armadillosports.com
? Over is 7-4 in last eleven Milwaukee games.
? Bucks haven?t played since last Saturday.

Nets
? Nets spanked Boston in five games in the first round.
? Brooklyn won/covered nine of its last ten games.
? Nets are 6-0 ATS in last five home games.
? Over is 5-3 in last eight Brooklyn games.
? Nets haven?t played since Tuesday.

? Milwaukee won six of last nine series games.
? Bucks covered three of last four visits to Brooklyn.
? Over is 6-4 in last ten series games.




NBA

Saturday, June 5
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Trend Report

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Milwaukee @ Brooklyn
Milwaukee
Milwaukee is 8-1 SU in its last 9 games when playing on the road against Brooklyn
Milwaukee is 7-1 SU in its last 8 games
Brooklyn
Brooklyn is 5-0 ATS in its last 5 games at home
Brooklyn is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games at home


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[Udog]

NBA
Dunkel

Saturday, June 5

 

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[Cnotes53]

SATURDAY, JUNE 5
GAME TIME(ET) PICK UNITS

MIL at BK 07:30 PM
BK -3.5
O 239.0
+500 +500


BEST BETS:

06/04/2021...............0 - 2 - 0................-11.00
06/02/2021...............2 - 2 - 0................- 1.00
06/01/2021...............4 - 1 - 0...............+14.50

Totals:......................6 - 5 - 0................ + 2.50

 

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BEST BETS:

06/05/2021...............1 - 1 - 0................-0.50
06/04/2021...............0 - 2 - 0................-11.00
06/02/2021...............2 - 2 - 0................- 1.00
06/01/2021...............4 - 1 - 0...............+14.50

Totals:......................7 - 6 - 0................ + 2.00

 

[Udog]

Sunday?s 6-pack
Odds to win the Pac-12 football title:
11-4? Oregon, USC
13-4? Washington
9-2? Arizona State
12-1? UCLA
14-1? Utah
15-1? Stanford
25-1? Colorado, Washington State
40-1? California
60-1? Oregon State
100-1? Arizona

Quote of the Day
?The easiest way for this country to get back to normal is to get vaccinated.?
Dr Anthony Fauci

Sunday?s quiz
Mariano Rivera has the most saves in baseball history; who has the 2nd most?

Saturday?s quiz
Johnny Manziel played in 14 games, starting 8, for the Cleveland Browns.

Friday?s quiz
Bill Belicheck was the last coach of the Cleveland Browns, before they moved to Baltimore and became the Ravens; he was 37-45 as coach of the Browns.

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Sunday?s Den: How MLB teams are doing in series??.

Major league teams? records in series:
(Away-Home= Total)
Does not include this weekend?s series.

Arizona A2-6-1, H2-4-3= 4-10-4

Atlanta A4-3-2, H4-4-1= 8-7-3

Cubs A3-5, H7-3= 10-8

Cincinnati A3-4-2, H4-3-2= 7-7-4

Colorado A0-8, H6-3-1= 6-11-1

Dodgers A4-3-2, H6-3= 10-6-2

Miami A3-5-2, H3-3-2= 6-8-4

Milwaukee A7-2, H2-5-2= 9-7-2

Mets A4-4-1, H6-1-1= 10-5-2

Philadelphia A2-6-2, H4-4= 6-10-2

Pittsburgh A3-7, H2-3-3= 5-10-3

St Louis A4-6, H3-3-2= 7-9-2

San Diego A4-2-3, H6-3= 10-5-3

San Francisco A5-4-1, H6-1-1= 11-5-2

Washington A2-4-2, H3-5-1= 7-9-3

Baltimore A4-5-1, H1-6-1= 5-11-2

Boston A6-2, H4-2-3= 10-4-3

White Sox A4-3-2, H5-1-3= 9-4-5

Cleveland A4-3-1, H4-4-2= 8-7-3

Detroit A2-6-1, H3-5-1= 5-11-2

Houston A3-3-2, H6-3-1= 9-6-3

Kansas City A2-3-4, H6-3= 8-6-4

Angels A2-5-2, H4-4-2= 6-9-4

Minnesota A3-5-2, H2-7= 5-12-2

New York A4-3-1, H5-3-2= 9-6-3

A?s A7-0-1, H3-5-2= 10-6-3

Seattle A3-4-1, H5-4-1= 8-8-2

Tampa Bay A6-2-1, H4-4-1= 10-6-2

Texas A3-7, H4-4= 7-11

Toronto A5-3-2, H4-3-1= 9-6-3

 

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[Udog]

571ATLANTA -572 PHILADELPHIA
ATLANTA is 32-17 ATS (13.3 Units) when playing 6 or less games in 14 days in the last 3 seasons.

573DALLAS -574 LA CLIPPERS
DALLAS are 15-4 ATS (10.6 Units) in road games when the total is 210-219.5 over the last 2 seasons.




NBA
Armadillo's Write-Up

Sunday, June 6

Atlanta @ Philadelphia
Hawks
? Hawks won 11 of last 13 games (9-4 ATS).
? Under is 7-0-1 in their last eight games.
? Atlanta is in this round for first time in five years.
? Hawks covered twice in last eight road games.
? Atlanta?s last game was Wednesday at MSG.

76ers
? Embiid (knee) is ??able here; check status
? 76ers won 14 of their last 17 games (11-6 ATS).
? Over is 6-1 in Philly?s last seven games.
? 76ers also last played on Wednesday.
? Philly is in this round for third time in four years; its been 20 years since they got beyond this round.

? 76ers won four of last six series games.
? Hawks are 1-4 ATS in last five visits to Philly.
? Over is 6-3 in last nine series games.

Dallas @ LA Clippers
Mavericks (series 3-3)
? Mavericks won 12 of their last 18 games overall.
? Mavericks are 7-2 ATS in last nine road games.
? Under is 3-0 in their last three games.
? Doncic scoring, by games: 31-39-44-19-42-29
? Dallas on arc:
Games 1-3- 55-109
Game 4- 5-30
Game 5- 14-36
Game 6- 11-34 (30-110, games 4-6)

Clippers
? Clippers lost nine of their last 15 games overall.
? You?re reading armadillosports.com
? Clippers are 1-6 ATS in last sseven home games.
? Under is 13-4-1 in last 18 Clipper games.

? Clipper starters? plus/minus:
Games 1-2: combined minus-134
Game 3: even
Game 4: +98
Game 5: +19
Game 6: +36

? Road team won all six series games.
? Clippers are 7-6 SU in last 13 meetings overall.
? Dallas is 4-0 ATS in last four road series games.
? Under is 7-2 in last eight series games.




NBA

Sunday, June 6

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Trend Report

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Atlanta @ Philadelphia
Atlanta
Atlanta is 8-1 SU in its last 9 games
The total has gone UNDER in 7 of Atlanta's last 8 games
Philadelphia
Philadelphia is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games at home
Philadelphia is 6-1 SU in its last 7 games

Dallas @ LA Clippers
Dallas
Dallas is 5-1 ATS in its last 6 games when playing on the road against LA Clippers
Dallas is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games when playing on the road against LA Clippers
LA Clippers
The total has gone UNDER in 8 of LA Clippers's last 10 games when playing Dallas
The total has gone UNDER in 7 of LA Clippers's last 9 games at home


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[Udog]

NBA
Dunkel

Sunday, June 6

 

[Udog]

 

[Cnotes53]

SUNDAY, JUNE 6
GAME TIME(ET) PICK UNITS

ATL at PHI 01:00 PM
ATL +3.5
U 220.5
+500 +500

DAL at LAC 03:30 PM
DAL +6.5
O 211.0
+500 +500

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BEST BETS:

06/05/2021...............1 - 1 - 0................-0.50
06/04/2021...............0 - 2 - 0................-11.00
06/02/2021...............2 - 2 - 0................- 1.00
06/01/2021...............4 - 1 - 0...............+14.50

Totals:......................7 - 6 - 0................ + 2.00

 

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DATE W-L-T % UNITS RECORD

06/06/2021 2-2-0 50.00% -.1.00
06/05/2021 1-1-0 50.00% -.0.50
06/04/2021 0-2-0 0.00% -11.00
06/03/2021 2-2-0 50.00% -.1.00
06/02/2021 4-4-0 50.00% -.2.00
06/01/2021 4-2-0 66.67% +.9.00

Totals.............13-13-0.......50.00%.....- 6.50


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BEST BETS:

06/06/2021...............2 - 2 - 0................- 1.00
06/05/2021...............1 - 1 - 0................- 0.50
06/04/2021...............0 - 2 - 0................-11.00
06/02/2021...............2 - 2 - 0................- 1.00
06/01/2021...............4 - 1 - 0...............+14.50

Totals:......................9 - 8 - 0................ + 1.00

 

[Udog]

Monday?s 6-pack
Major League leaders in strikeouts (by pitcher):
117? Shane Bieber, Clev
106? Tyler Glasnow, TB
104? Gerrit Cole, NYY/Max Scherzer Wsh
100? Zack Wheeler, Phil
96? Trevor Bauer, LA
93? Jacob deGrom, NYM/Kevin Gausman, SF

Quote of the Day
?Playing on a torn meniscus is not easy. All I can do is keep managing it. Do my best, get as much treatment as I can. Try to manage it to make sure it doesn?t swell up too much. Obviously, the pain is going to be there. That?s normal. But it?s all about managing it and doing whatever it takes to win. My goal is to win a championship and I?m going to put my body on the line to make sure that happens. I?m going to give everything I got.?
76ers? star Joel Embiid

Monday?s quiz
Who led the NBA in scoring this season?

Sunday?s quiz
Mariano Rivera has the most saves in baseball history; Trevor Hoffman has the 2nd most.

Saturday?s quiz
Johnny Manziel played in 14 games, starting 8, for the Cleveland Browns.

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Monday?s Den: Wrapping up a sports weekend

13) Patrick Cantlay won the Memorial golf tournament in Ohio Sunday, winning in a playoff against Colin Morikawa. Cantlay banked a cool $1.7M for the win, but that wasn?t the biggest golf story this weekend.

Jon Rahm led this tournament by six strokes after the third round, but he tested positive for COVID twice and had to withdraw. Guy leads by six strokes after three rounds, he ain?t going to lose; testing positive cost him $1.7M, plus a few more weeks on the bench.

12) Orioles? OF Cedric Mullins went 5-5 with two homers Saturday, becoming the third Oriole ever to do that- Brooks Robinson, Cal Ripken Jr were the others. Thats Oriole royalty there.

Mullins is a vastly improved player this season, hitting .322 with a .923 OPS. Coming into this season, he was a career .225 hitter in 374 career AB?s.

11) Atlanta Falcons are going to trade 32-year old WR Julio Jones to Tennessee, getting draft picks in the 2nd/4th round in exchange.

New Falcons coach Arthur Smith had been an assistant coach in Tennessee the last 10 years, so its an interesting deal.

Arthur Smith trivia: His father is the founder/CEO of FedEx. He is really, really rich.

10) Milwaukee 2, Arizona 0? Diamondbacks have lost 17 straight road games.

9) Reds 8, Cardinals 7? Cincinnati led 7-0, blew the lead, then won when Jesse Winker hit his third homer of the game in the 9th inning. Reds swept this four-game series.

8) Rays 7, Rangers 1? Texas has lost 11 of its last 12 games.

7) Clippers 126, Mavericks 111 (LA wins series 4-3)
? First game in series where home side won
? Kawhi Leonard scored 28, had 10 boards, nine assists.
? Luka Doncic scored 46 in a losing cause.

6) Hawks 128, 76ers 124 (Atlanta leads 1-0)
? Joel Embiid scored 39 while playing with torn meniscus in his knee.
? Hawks were 20-47 on the arc, 24-39 inside the arc.
? Ben Simmons was 3-10 on the foul line; this will never not bother me, how a player of his skill can be so putrid on the foul line.

5) Andy Dalton is Chicago Bears? new QB, until rookie Josh Fields is ready to go; Dalton has been in NFL for 10 years, has a 74-66-2 record, playing for 7 different offensive coordinators.

4) Former NBA great Gary Payton is going to be the basketball coach at Lincoln U, which is in Oakland and doesn?t yet have a basketball team. Their eventual goal is to be a Division I team; Payton has never coached, which is no big deal.

Must admit, I?ve never heard of Lincoln U, until now.

3) Phillies 12, Giants 6? Game was delayed in the 8th inning when the protective netting behind the plate on the first base side fell down. Took them a decent amount of time to get the netting back up. Naturally, they were booed by the fans when things were going slowly.

2) Orlando Magic fired coach Steve Clifford, who was 96-131 in three years there, making the playoffs the last two seasons, but not this one.

1) If the baseball playoffs started today (they don?t):
NL- Mets, Mil or Cubs, Giants. Wild Card: Dodgers @ Padres
AL- Rays, White Sox, A?s. Wild Card: Astros @ Red Sox

 

[Udog]

 

[Udog]

581MILWAUKEE -582 BROOKLYN
BROOKLYN is 11-1 ATS (9.9 Units) in home games versus explosive offensive teams - scoring 110+ points/game - 2nd half of the season in the current season.

583DENVER -584 PHOENIX
PHOENIX is 8-0 ATS (8 Units) off a win by 10 points or more over a division rival over the last 2 seasons.




NBA
Armadillo's Write-Up

Monday, June 7

Milwaukee @ Brooklyn
Bucks
? Milwaukee won 7 of last 9 games SU overall.
? Bucks are 7-5-1 ATS in last 13 road games.
? You?re reading armadillosports.com
? Over is 7-5 in last dozen Milwaukee games.
? Bucks are 4-7-1 ATS in game following their last 12 losses.
? Milwaukee?s bench shot a combined 6-19 in 77:00 in Game 1.

Nets (lead series, 1-0)
? Harden is injured, won?t play in this game- he played 1:00 in Game 1.
? Brooklyn won/covered 10 of its last 11 games.
? Nets are 7-0 ATS in last seven home games.
? Over is 5-4 in last nine Brooklyn games.
? Nets were 15-40 on arc, 8-9 on foul line in Game 1.
? Blake Griffin scored 18 points, had 14 boards in Game 1.

? Milwaukee won six of last ten series games.
? Bucks covered three of last five visits to Brooklyn.
? Over is 6-5 in last 11 series games.

Denver @ Phoenix
Nuggets
? Nuggets won 4 of last 5 games, after losing Game 1 to Portland.
? Denver won 25 of its last 34 games SU.
? Nuggets are 4-2 ATS in last six road games.
? Jokic scored 34+ points in five of six games vs Portland.
? Denver scored 120+ points in all four wins vs Portland.
? Nuggets last played Thursday night.

Suns
? Phoenix won seven of its last nine games overall.
? Suns are 5-2 ATS in their last seven home games.
? You?re reading armadillosports.com
? Phoenix held Lakers to 100 or fewer points in last series? wins.
? Suns are in playoffs for first time in a decade.
? Phoenix last played Thursday night.

? Denver won 7 of last 8 series games, winning last two in OT.
? Nuggets are 3-1 ATS in last four visits to Phoenix.
? Over is 5-1 in last six series games.




NBA

Monday, June 7
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Trend Report

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Milwaukee @ Brooklyn
Milwaukee
Milwaukee is 8-2 SU in its last 10 games when playing on the road against Brooklyn
Milwaukee is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games
Brooklyn
Brooklyn is 5-0 ATS in its last 5 games at home
Brooklyn is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games at home

Denver @ Phoenix
Denver
Denver is 9-1 SU in its last 10 games when playing on the road against Phoenix
The total has gone OVER in 8 of Denver's last 9 games when playing on the road against Phoenix
Phoenix
The total has gone OVER in 8 of Phoenix's last 9 games when playing at home against Denver
Phoenix is 16-2 SU in its last 18 games at home


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