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Stephen A. Smith has built a reputation as one of the most recognizable voices in sports media, and his reactions often shape the broader conversation around the NBA. When LeBron James made a decision that caught public attention, Smith’s response quickly became a headline of its own. His visible surprise reflected more than personal opinion; it symbolized how significant LeBron’s choices remain in professional basketball. Fans, analysts, and commentators all pay close attention whenever LeBron alters the direction of his career, brand, or public messaging. That is because his decisions frequently influence roster construction, championship expectations, television coverage, and even league narratives. In this sense, Stephen A. Smith’s shocked reaction was not just entertainment. It was a reminder of how deeply LeBron James affects the entire sports ecosystem. The moment also reinforced how modern basketball analysis now operates in real time, with reactions traveling instantly through social media and digital platforms. As a result, one decision can dominate the news cycle for days.
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00:00Stephen A. Smith has reacted to LeBron James' stunning free agency decision,
00:04and he was genuinely caught off guard after spending years insisting LeBron would return
00:10to Cleveland if he ever left Lowe's Angels. He admitted this move completely blindsided him,
00:17but that wasn't the only thing that shocked him. Let me catch you up. Let's start exactly where
00:22this story starts, with Stephen A. Smith's face when he found out. For weeks, Smith had been
00:28building a case on national television. He'd been telling audiences that if LeBron James left the
00:33Lowe's Angels Lakers and stayed in the Eastern Conference, there was really only one landing
00:39spot that made emotional sense, Cleveland. Not Miami, not some surprise team nobody was talking
00:45about, Cleveland. So when the news broke that LeBron was signing with the Philadelphia 76ers
00:51instead, Smith didn't ease into his reaction. He said it straight on ESPN's first take.
00:57Stephen A. Smith expected LeBron James to return to familiar ground if the four-time MVP chose the
01:04Eastern Conference for the final chapter of his career. Instead, James signed with the Philadelphia
01:1076ers, leaving Smith stunned that the 41-year-old passed on another reunion with the Cleveland Cavaliers.
01:17His exact words, according to a clip that circulated on X, he said he was shocked because he figured if
01:23LeBron was heading back East. He'd be going home, not dangling his availability in front of the
01:29Cavaliers and then bolting somewhere else. He said it speaks to Bob Myers being in Philly now
01:35and pulling off what he called a heist by getting Jalen Brown. Smith added that this makes Philadelphia
01:41a legitimate top team in the East. One built to compete with the Knicks. That's not a passing comment.
01:47That's Stephen A. Smith, on the biggest sports debate show in the country, admitting on air
01:53that he got this one wrong. And he wasn't shy about naming names. Bob Myers the Cavaliers,
01:59Jalen Brown the Knicks. All in one breath, live, in real time. Now let's talk about LeBron's side of
02:05this. Because his decision is what triggered Smith's reaction in the first place. James agreed to a two-year,
02:11$8 million contract with a player option. Clutch Sports CEO Rich Paul told ESPN's Shams Gerania.
02:19That number alone stopped people cold. This is a guy who made nearly $53 million just last season,
02:26according to the Associated Press. And he chose to play for a fraction of that to go win somewhere new.
02:32The move ended weeks of retirement speculation and endless chatter about a possible third stint in
02:38Cleveland. And that's exactly what made Smith's read on this so reasonable going in. It wasn't a
02:44random guess. LeBron had left breadcrumbs pointing toward Cleveland the entire time. Here's the thing
02:50that really got under Smith's skin, though. When LeBron announced his decision, he didn't just
02:55quietly sign and move on. He thanked the Lowe's Angels Lakers, expressed his lasting affection for
03:01Miami, and wrote that Northeast Ohio will always home. Read that again, home not was home,
03:07not used to be home. Present tense, ongoing, still home. That's the line Smith was reacting to when
03:14he called this whole situation a case of dangling availability in front of the Cavaliers. James grew
03:20up in Akron, began his NBA career with the Cavaliers, and returned in 2014 after four seasons with the
03:27Miami Heat. His second Cleveland stint produced the 2016 championship. That ended the city's lengthy
03:33major professional sports title drought. That's not background trivia. That's the exact history
03:39Smith was leaning on when he assumed Cleveland was the emotional favorite. A kid from Akron,
03:45a title-starved city, a championship that broke a curse. If any city had a claim on LeBron's homecoming
03:51instinct, on paper, it was that one. And it wasn't just Smith connecting those dots either. The Associated
03:58Press reported that Cleveland and Miami were believed to be under consideration before James
04:04chose Philadelphia. So this wasn't some outlandish theory Smith cooked up on his own. Multiple
04:10outlets had Cleveland in the mix right up until the very end, which makes the final decision hit
04:15that much harder for anyone who had the Cavaliers penciled in. There's also the retirement piece,
04:21which adds a whole different layer to why Smith felt blindsided. James also revealed that he had been
04:26pretty sure his career was over after the Lakers' playoff exit. But his tune changed. He put it
04:33plainly in his own statement, saying he still loves the game, still has more to give, still wants to
04:38compete and win, still wants that feeling of another championship. So this wasn't a guy quietly
04:44writing out a contract. This was a guy who thought he was done, talked himself back into one more run,
04:50and then picked a team nobody outside of Philadelphia's front office really had circled.
04:55Put yourself in Smith's seat for a second. You've spent your career building a reputation on reading
05:00athletes, reading situations, reading loyalty and legacy, and hometown pull. You go on air,
05:07you make the pick that seems obvious. Cleveland if he goes east at all. And then LeBron goes and
05:12signs with a completely different team. One that wasn't even part of the conversation a month earlier.
05:18That's the moment that produced the clip everyone was sharing.
05:22That's the shock. And it's worth sitting with why Smith specifically used the word
05:27dangling. That's not a neutral word. That implies LeBron let Cleveland believe something,
05:33let the door stay open just long enough, and then walked through a different one entirely.
05:38Whether or not that's fair to LeBron is a separate conversation. But it tells you exactly how blindsided
05:44Smith felt in the moment. He wasn't just surprised by the outcome. He felt like the signals had pointed
05:50somewhere else. So now the obvious question becomes, how did Philadelphia even get into
05:56this conversation? A month ago, nobody was talking about the Sixers as a LeBron destination.
06:02Something had to change fast enough to flip the entire market. And fast enough to catch someone
06:07as plugged in as Stephen A. Smith off guard. That's where the story goes next. To understand why Smith was
06:14blindsided. You have to go back to the move that made Philadelphia relevant in the first place.
06:19Because without it, this entire storyline doesn't exist. The Philadelphia 76ers acquired Jalen Brown
06:26from the Boston Celtics earlier in July. For Paul George and four draft picks. That's the domino that
06:32started everything. Before that trade, Philadelphia wasn't in anybody's top five for LeBron. After it,
06:38they were suddenly the team everyone was talking about. Brown wasn't some throw-in piece either.
06:44Brown arrives after averaging a career-high 28.7 points, 6.9 rebounds, and 5.1 assists last season.
06:52The five-time All-Star and 2024 NBA Finals MVP gives Philadelphia another proven postseason scorer,
07:00beside James. A Finals MVP walking into a roster that already had Joel Embiid and Tyrese Maxey.
07:07That's the kind of move that reshapes a conference overnight, and it did exactly that.
07:12According to Bleacher Report, the huge ripple effects of the Jalen Brown trade
07:17continue to be felt in the NBA, with the Friday news that LeBron was also joining the Sixers.
07:23That's not a coincidence. That's cause and effect. The trade came first, LeBron's decision followed.
07:30It's worth understanding just how unlikely Philadelphia looked before Brown arrived.
07:35The Sixers had been swept in the second round of the playoffs. They didn't have an obvious path
07:41to upgrading anything. They were dealing with cap situations, they had role players hitting the open
07:46market, and by most outside accounts, they were nowhere near championship contention.
07:51Then out of nowhere, the front office found a way to flip Paul George's massive contract
07:56for a top-five wing in the league, and everything shifted. That front office matters here, too,
08:02because it's the second name Smith brought up in his reaction, Bob Myers.
08:06Myers isn't some anonymous executive. Smith credited Bob Myers, the former Golden State
08:12Warriors executive, who joined Harris Blitzer Sports and Entertainment as president of HBSE Sports
08:18in October 2025. This is a guy who built championship rosters in Golden State for years.
08:25When he shows up running a team's basketball operation, people pay attention.
08:29And apparently so did LeBron. Myers oversees the broader sports operation,
08:34while Mike Gansey handles the 76ers' basketball department.
08:38Gansey's name matters, too, and here's why. He's not some outsider parachuting in.
08:44According to ESPN, Mike Gansey, the 76ers' new president, was with James in Cleveland when the
08:50Cavaliers won the 2016 title. He and LeBron go back even further than that. They were rival Ohio
08:57high school stars, finishing 1-2 in Ohio's Mr. Basketball, voting the same year. So this wasn't
09:03a stranger making a cold pitch. This was somebody LeBron already trusted. Somebody who'd been in
09:09the trenches with him during the best year of his Cleveland career. That relationship shows up again
09:15once you look at how the recruitment actually played out. Reports from ESPN describe how the
09:21Sixers came at James from all angles. President of Basketball Operations, Mike Gansey, who was a
09:27Cavaliers executive during James' second stint in Cleveland, and competed against him when they
09:32were high school players in Northeast Ohio. Stayed in constant communication with Paul behind the scenes.
09:39That's a front office working every single angle it had, using history and relationships that stretch
09:45back decades. Then there's Bob Myers making his pitch directly. On Rich Paul's own podcast,
09:51Myers didn't dance around it. He told James flat out, according to ESPN, that I honestly believe
09:57this is your best chance to win. You have to decide all the other things that are equally important.
10:03If it's about winning, let's talk about this team. Because you can win here in Philadelphia.
10:09Think about that for a second. The president of the team's entire sports operation,
10:13going on the free agent's own agent's podcast, to make a personal pitch. That's not a normal
10:19recruiting tactic. That's how badly Philadelphia wanted this. And it worked, at least according
10:25to how the front office built its plan. A former Sports Illustrated report, cited by outlets tracking
10:32the free agency, described how the trade with Boston that sent Paul George and draft capital to the
10:37Celtics for Jalen Brown is where all of this really started. That single move reshuffled the
10:43entire free agency race overnight. Overnight, that's the key word. One transaction, and suddenly,
10:50a team that wasn't in the conversation, became the frontrunner. That's fast enough to catch even
10:55the sharpest analysts off guard, including someone as confident as Stephen A. Smith. There's also a
11:01wrinkle to the Brown trade worth knowing. Brown didn't just sit quietly waiting to see if LeBron
11:06would join him. During a live stream with streamer iShowSpeed tied to the World Cup,
11:11Brown jokingly leaned into the camera and passed along a message for LeBron, essentially telling
11:17him to pull up to Philly. It was a joke in the moment. It didn't stay a joke for long.
11:22So by the
11:23time free agency reached its final stretch, Philadelphia wasn't some sleeper pick anymore.
11:28It had a finals MVP, a title-winning front office executive, a basketball operations head with
11:35genuine history with LeBron, and a roster that had gone from irrelevant to intriguing in a matter of
11:41days. That's the machine that built the outcome Stephen A. Smith didn't see coming. Which brings
11:47us to the roster itself, because Smith's shock wasn't just about Cleveland losing out. It was about
11:52exactly what Philadelphia was suddenly capable of fielding. Now let's actually look at what
11:58LeBron walked into. Because this is the part of the story that turned Smith's surprise
12:03into something closer to respect. The result is a roster built around James, Brown, Joel Embiid,
12:10Tyrese Maxey and Vijay Edgeko. Read that lineup out loud. Two former MVPs, a finals MVP, an All-NBA guard,
12:18and a young wing many consider a future All-Star. That's not a rebuild. That's a five-man
12:24core assembled to win right away. ESPN broke it down piece by piece. Bob Myers, who oversees
12:31Philadelphia's front office, won four championships as a Golden State Warriors executive. Mike Gancey,
12:37the 76ers new president, was with James in Cleveland when the Cavaliers won the 2016 title. Nick Nurse,
12:45Philadelphia's coach, led the Toronto Raptors to the 2019 title. Jalen Brown won the 2024 championship
12:52with the Boston Celtics and was named finals MVP. Joel Embiid won gold at the 2024 Paris Olympics
12:59as James' teammate. That's four separate championship pedigrees stacked into one front office and locker
13:05room. And the roster on the floor backs it up. With James in the fold, Philadelphia can claim
13:11to have the NBA's most star-studded starting lineup. James and Embiid are MVP winners. Jalen Brown and Tyrese
13:19Maxi are All-NBA performers. And Vijay Edgekoombe has the makings of a future All-Star. In addition
13:26to that star power, the 76ers have collected enough quality options to fill out a second unit. And by
13:33time when James and Embiid miss games during the regular season. That last part matters more than
13:38people realize. James is 41. Embiid has a long injury history. Depth isn't a luxury for this roster,
13:46it's a requirement. And apparently Philadelphia built for that too. Now, how did they actually
13:52close the deal with LeBron specifically? This wasn't just a front office pitch. It was players
13:58working the phones. According to ESPN's reporting, a trio of Sixers stars personally worked on James.
14:06A trio of Sixers players, Tyrese Maxi, Joel Embiid, and the newly acquired Jalen Brown,
14:12worked on James directly, sources told ESPN. That effort was led by Maxi, a fellow clutch client,
14:19who has referred to James as a big brother in the past. Maxi's relationship with LeBron goes back
14:25years before any of this trade talk started. He's trained with him in the offseason. He's a fellow
14:31client of Rich Paul's agency. And by all accounts, he treated this recruitment personally, not just
14:37professionally. When the news finally broke, Maxi didn't hide his reaction either. He posted
14:42Instagram stories from a gym, yelling in celebration as the news came through. Brown got in on it too,
14:49in his own way, posting a hashtag on ex-welcoming James to Philadelphia. A phrase that, according to
14:55reporting, had already been put on billboards by the time the ink was drying on the deal. So this wasn't
15:02a
15:02front office working alone. It was three all-star caliber teammates, a title-winning executive,
15:08and a president with real history, all pulling in the same direction at the same time. That kind of
15:13coordinated full-court press is rare in free agency. Usually you get an executive making a pitch,
15:20maybe one player reaching out. This was layered business side, basketball side, personal relationships,
15:26all stacked on top of each other. And there's a symmetry to it that's hard to ignore.
15:31Rich Paul, LeBron's own agent, apparently laid out the finalists himself on his podcast.
15:36Paul went on his podcast and unveiled a whiteboard, with James' name pointing to five possible
15:42destinations. The Sixers, Cavaliers, Heat, Nuggets, and Timberwolves. The Warriors, Celtics,
15:48Dallas Mavericks, San Antonio Spurs, and New York Knicks. We're on the outskirts of that inner circle.
15:54Five real contenders. Cleveland right there among them, exactly where Smith figured it belonged.
16:00And yet Philadelphia is the one that came out on top. That whiteboard is basically a visual of
16:06everything Smith was reacting to. Cleveland wasn't ignored, it was right there in the mix,
16:11and it still didn't win out. There's also a bit of history buried in all of this that Sixers fans
16:16didn't forget. Philadelphia had actually been in the LeBron conversation once before, years earlier,
16:22back when he was originally choosing a free agent destination. That ultimately became the Lakers.
16:28He reportedly considered the Sixers back then, but didn't even attend the in-person mighting.
16:33Picking Lowe's Angels instead, and staying there for the better part of a decade.
16:38So there's a strange, full-circle element here. A franchise that once got passed over
16:43finally landing him. Years later, under completely different circumstances.
16:48Put all of that together, the front office pedigree, the roster construction,
16:52the personal recruitment from three All-Stars. The coach with his own championship resume.
16:58And you start to see exactly what pulled LeBron away from the emotional pull of home.
17:02It wasn't one factor, it was every factor stacking on top of each other. At the same time,
17:08fast enough that even Stephen A. Smith didn't have time to update his prediction
17:12before the ink was dry. Which leads to the next obvious piece of this puzzle.
17:17What LeBron actually said about all of it in his own words. And why that statement is what really
17:22set off Smith's reaction in the first place. Let's slow down on exactly what LeBron said,
17:28because this is the material. Smith was reacting too, sentence by sentence.
17:33James didn't just announce a signing, he wrote out an explanation. In his own voice on social media,
17:39he called this his last decision. In his posts, James said this will be his last decision.
17:45And that it comes after he strongly considered retirement. Right there before anything else,
17:50he's telling the world this might be it. Final stop, no more decisions after this one.
17:55Then he got into why he even considered walking away. A four-time NBA champion,
18:01James wrote he was done. When his 23rd NBA season ended. And that it was his last with the Lowe's
18:07Angels Lakers. I was pretty sure I played my last game. That's about as honest as an athlete
18:13gets about the mental exhaustion. Of playing at that level into his 40s. But then something changed.
18:19And James laid out exactly what pulled him back in. I'm not going for money. I'm not going for
18:24family. James wrote. What am I really playing for at this point? I still want to sacrifice.
18:30I still want to work. I still want to grind. I still want to compete. To win and to have
18:35a chance
18:36at the feeling of winning. That statement matters because it directly contradicts the logic Smith
18:41had built his prediction on. If this were about going home, about comfort, about family ties to
18:47Northeast Ohio, Cleveland wins that argument every time. But James specifically ruled out money and
18:53family as his motivators. He said this decision was about competing and winning. And that reframes
19:00everything Smith assumed going in. Then came the line that really set Smith off. I believe I can help
19:06make the Philadelphia 76ers a championship team. And I am so excited to energize a new fan base.
19:13And start this incredible journey one last time. A new fan base. Not a returning fan base. Not we're
19:19back. A new one entirely. And then almost as an afterthought. The line that made this whole
19:25situation sting a little more. For anyone expecting Cleveland, thank you LA. Miami I'll forever love
19:32in Northeast Ohio. We're always home. Read the order of that sentence again. Lakers thanked. Miami loved
19:39forever. Northeast Ohio. Home. Present tense permanently. Three different cities. Getting
19:45three different levels of affection. And none of them are the team he actually just signed with.
19:50It's almost like James was closing every chapter at once. Thanking every stop along the way. While
19:56opening a brand new one. Nobody had fully expected. That phrasing is exactly what Smith
20:02zeroed in on. When he used the word dangling. Because if Northeast Ohio is always home. And yet
20:08James signs somewhere else entirely. That's the tension Smith was pointing to. Not that James did
20:14anything wrong. But that the emotional signals pointed one way. While the actual decision went
20:20another. There's also the matter of James's history. With dramatic decisions. Which makes this one land
20:26differently for long-time fans. This isn't his first time making a defining choice about where to play.
20:32Years earlier when he left Miami to return to Cleveland. He wrote an entirely different kind
20:38of statement. One built around identity and home. He talked then about growing up in Northeast Ohio.
20:45About that region shaping who he was. Before anyone cared about his basketball career. This time the tone
20:51was different. There was no I'm coming home headline. There was no first person essay. About walking the
20:57same streets he grew up on. Instead there was a shorter. More businesslike statement. About chasing
21:03one more championship feeling. With the emotional nods to Cleveland. Tucked in almost as a courtesy.
21:09At the end. Rather than the entire premise of the decision. That shift matters. It tells you this
21:14decision wasn't driven by nostalgia. The way his 2014 return was. It was driven by roster fit. By a front
21:22office that made an aggressive full-court pitch. And by teammates who'd already won championships and
21:27finals MVPs standing next to him. Smith had been predicting a nostalgia-driven decision. What he got
21:33instead was a basketball-driven one. Wrapped in just enough sentiment. To make the surprise even sharper.
21:40It's also worth noting how James handled the Lakers exit itself. According to ESPN. He informed the
21:47Lakers directly. That he wouldn't be returning before free agency even kicked off. Then let the
21:52market play out over multiple weeks. While his agent fielded calls from more than two dozen teams.
21:59Rich Paul described it as the first time in his career. James got to make a decision without
22:04external pressure. Purely built around what he called a bucket of happiness. Competition,
22:09camaraderie, basketball itself. All of that context makes the final decision feel less like a snap
22:16choice. And more like the end of a long, quiet process. That only became public in its final days.
22:22Smith wasn't wrong to expect Cleveland. He was reacting to real signals. The wording, the history,
22:28the championship, the childhood roots. He just didn't have the full picture of how hard Philadelphia's
22:34front office and roster had been working behind the scenes. To change the outcome. Which brings
22:40the story to where it stands now. LeBron in a Sixers jersey. Cleveland moving on without him.
22:46And everyone left to figure out what comes next. For the people and cities left out of this decision.
22:52So where does everyone involved actually stand now that the dust has settled? Start with Cleveland.
22:57Since that's the city Smith assumed would win this whole thing. The Cavaliers spent weeks in the
23:03frontrunner conversation. Tied together with Miami as the two most likely landing spots. According to
23:09the Associated Press. Instead, they're left recalibrating. Reports out of Cleveland describe
23:15the front office wiping the board clean. And pivoting toward other roster moves now that a third
23:21LeBron stint isn't happening. That includes decisions about re-signing other free agents.
23:26And figuring out their own path forward in a suddenly stacked Eastern Conference. There's a layer of
23:32irony in that too. Cleveland already has. Its own homegrown star drawing outside interest. With Donovan
23:39Mitchell tied to the roster as the face of the franchise going forward. The Cavaliers now head into
23:45the season needing to build their identity. Without the possibility of LeBron ever suiting up for them
23:50a third time. A scenario that had lingered as a background storyline for years and is now fully
23:56closed. Then there's Philadelphia sitting on the other end of this outcome. Suddenly the story of the
24:02summer. They then one-upped themselves by landing James. In one of the more improbable roster additions
24:08in franchise history. A team that was swept out of the playoffs in the second round. Is now being talked
24:14about
24:14as a legitimate threat to the Knicks and anyone else in the East. That's a dramatic turn for a fan
24:20base
24:20that's gone decades. Without a championship parade of its own. And that drought matters here too.
24:26Because it adds weight to why Philadelphia pushed so hard. According to a BC7. By choosing the Sixers.
24:33James commits to a fourth NBA team. As he searches for a fifth NBA championship before retirement.
24:39James will hope to break a 43-year championship drought for the 76ers. Much the same way he erased
24:45a 52-year streak. Without a title for the city of Cleveland. When he won a championship with the
24:51Cavaliers in 2016. That's not a small ask. That's James being brought in specifically to do again.
24:57What he already did once in Cleveland. End a championship drought that's stretched across
25:02generations of fans. If he pulls it off in Philadelphia. The way he did back home.
25:07This move goes from surprising to legendary almost instantly. If it doesn't work out. It becomes a
25:14much messier footnote. In an already complicated final chapter of his career. As for Smith. His
25:20reaction remains exactly what it was in the moment. Genuine surprise from someone who thought he
25:25understood exactly how this story was going to end. He wasn't hedging. He wasn't offering some vague
25:31non-committal take designed to cover every outcome. He said flatly that he expected home.
25:36And he got Philadelphia instead. And once the surprise passed. He pivoted straight into crediting
25:42the people who pulled it off. Myers for the front office work. Brown's arrival for making the roster
25:47believable. And the resulting team for genuinely being able to compete with the Knicks in the East.
25:53That pivot says something too. Smith didn't just admit he missed on his prediction and move on bitterly.
25:59He recalibrated in real time. Live on air. And gave credit to exactly what changed his read
26:05on the situation. That's rare in sports debate television. Where predictions often get quietly
26:11buried. Instead of publicly revisited. There's also a quieter storyline sitting underneath all of this.
26:17Lebron's own words about not chasing money or family with this decision. He made nearly 53 million
26:23dollars in 2025-26. He walked away from that kind of money. To take a fraction of it in Philadelphia.
26:30All in pursuit of a feeling he described as wanting to compete and win one more time.
26:35That's a 41-year-old future Hall of Famer. Already the league's all-time scoring leader.
26:41Still willing to bet everything on one more shot at a ring. In a city that had never even been
26:46part of
26:47the conversation a month earlier. So here's where this leaves everyone. Cleveland moves forward without
26:53the third Lebron chapter. It was reportedly hoping for. Philadelphia enters the season as one of the
26:59most talked about rosters in basketball. Built almost entirely around a trade. And a recruitment
27:05pitch nobody outside the building saw coming until it was already done. And Stephen A. Smith. The man
27:11who called this shot with total confidence and got it wrong in the most public way possible. Ended up
27:16admitting it live on national television. Before turning around and explaining exactly why it happened
27:22anyway. That's the story. Not a prediction gone quietly forgotten. But a reaction captured in real
27:28time. On camera. From one of the most confident voices in the business. Followed almost immediately
27:33by him working out. Live. Exactly how it all came together behind him. Sources. Stephen A. Smith.
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