Based on a sample of size $n$, find a sufficient and complete statistics for $\theta$ and the MLE for $\theta$

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Let $X_1, ...., X_n$ be iid random variables from the following distribution

$x$ $-1$ $0$ $1$
$P(X=x)$ $\theta / 3$ $(1- \theta)$ $2\theta/3$

for $0\leq \theta \leq 1$.

Based on a sample of size $n$, find

(a) suficient and complete statistics for $\theta$.

(b) MLE for $\theta$

My try:

We got that

$\prod^n_{i}f(x_i;\theta)=\prod^n_{x_i=-1}\theta/3\prod^n_{x_i=-1}(1-\theta)\prod^n_{x_i=-1}2\theta/3=L(\theta)$

for b) I know that I have to find the máximum of the function $L(\theta)$ but I'm not sure how to do this with these discrete random variables. Any suggestions would be great!