2025 NBA Futures & Best Bets | Top Team Picks and Season-Long Player Props
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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We're getting ready for NBA bets! Join Sia Nejad, PropStarz, Mike Barner, and Zack Cimini as they go through their favorite NBA season-long bets, including player props, conference winners and MORE!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, everyone? |
| 0:10.1 | Welcome to the Early Edge. |
| 0:11.6 | It's a special NBA futures show, and we've got a great cast. |
| 0:16.0 | This show, of course, is brought to you by BetMGM. |
| 0:18.7 | Make it legendary. |
| 0:20.8 | There's so many things going on with football and baseball. But guess what, ladies and gentlemen. The NBA is back. So let's bring in the stars of the show because if the NBA is back, it must mean that we have Zach Simony, that we have prop stars, and that Mikey B, we have missed you. It must mean you're back. How you doing, my friend? I'm doing great. I cannot wait for basketball. I'll be back in our lives. The preseason came upon us quickly. And now everything starts back up tomorrow. Everything starts back up tomorrow, including you being on the early edge tomorrow morning. And, of course, you'll be a regular on the early edge during NBA season. And Zach Simony, it doesn't look like you're on the early edge tomorrow morning. And of course, you'll be a regular on the early |
| 0:54.4 | edge during NBA season. Zach Simony, it doesn't look like you're in the friendly confines of Las Vegas. You're in Arizona this week. How are you doing today, buddy? Yeah, I'm doing good. Yeah, I'm down here in retirement capital of the world, Mesa, Arizona. It's fall break for the kids. So we came on down, kind of a last second |
| 1:12.7 | decision. Just come on down. Probably won't be able to make it down through the holidays. So |
| 1:15.6 | here I am. And yeah, NBA, always good to be on. I know Mike Barner killed it last year. |
| 1:20.9 | Prop be on with him so many times. Love his takes. Got so many winners from him in the |
| 1:25.7 | prop market. In retirement community already, because Zach's going to hit so many winners. He's going to |
| 1:31.3 | retire early. He's scouting out where he wants to live. Prop stars, you've been pretty hot as well |
| 1:36.0 | in the NFL, but now you've got to transition to, well, not fully transition, but certainly |
| 1:41.3 | transition a little bit to the NBA. How are you doing? |
| 1:43.8 | I'm great. See you a second time in one day. Lovely to see you see you. And then Mikey B and |
| 1:49.1 | Zach, it's an honor and a pleasure to be with you guys. Super fired up. The NBA has always been |
| 1:54.7 | my first passion. I love MBA props. It's really where I started my origin story is starting. I first began betting in an NBA props. It's really where I started, my origin story is starting. I first began betting |
| 2:03.7 | in an NBA props. So yeah, they hold a special place in my heart. I love the grind of the |
| 2:08.7 | season. I'm fired up for what looks like a wide open year in the NBA. Yeah. If you're old school, |
| 2:15.6 | early edge, old school sports line, you remember prop stars from NBA props, I guess initially, and then NFL props and all all props. And of course, you also remember Lil Geppetto. You certainly remember Zach as well and Mikey B joining the party after the fact. And I got to say, speaking, we're going to get to our props in just a second. But speaking to old school and just people |
| 2:35.6 | that have been with us for a while, we already have a lot of people in the chat. If you have questions, |
| 2:39.2 | we're going to answer them during this show. This is going to be more of a relaxed futures show |
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