🏀 Early Edge in 5: NBA Playoff Picks, Props + Parlay for Heat-76ers & Suns-Mavericks (5/12)
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, SportsLine
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2022
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
Allan Bell is joined by Alex Selesnick (aka PropStarz) and Mike Barner to preview tonight's NBA playoff action.
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ABOUT THE SHOW: Looking for the best picks against the spread and prop plays you can take straight to the pay window? Join Jonathan Coachman on The Early Edge as he speaks with SportsLine's top handicappers to analyze the day's biggest games. From primetime showdowns to off-the-radar action, Early Edge gives you best bets in a quick, informative and easy-to-digest podcast. We promise to keep it short, sweet and to the point as SportsLine's featured experts come together to put some green in your pocket.
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| 0:54.7 | What is up? Welcome in to the Early Edge in 5. Powered by Sportsline. I'm your host, Alan Bell, and I tell you what, we're not going to waste a single second. Let's bring in the stars of the show and get this thing going. Gentlemen, we have two fantastic NBA games lined up for tonight. |
| 0:55.8 | Prop Stars coming to you. |
| 0:58.9 | First off, good afternoon, sir, to parts unknown. |
| 1:02.5 | And second, James Harden, man, 76ers have a decision to make. |
| 1:03.7 | What are they going to do? |
| 1:07.3 | Yeah, I don't envy being in that front office, A, B. |
| 1:12.1 | They've got a real dilemma in their hands in regards to former MVP James Hardin, |
| 1:17.5 | what to do with him. As we know, they have another MVP candidate, Joelle Embed, a young ascendant talent, and Tarese Maxie, and then a slew of question marks around them. The deadline deal |
| 1:23.1 | for Hardin will look brilliant in hindsight if they're able to capture a title, but if not, history |
| 1:28.6 | could remember a very substantial cost of Ben Simmons, Seth Curry, Andre Drummond, and a pair of |
| 1:35.4 | first round picks. Hardin's now 32. Just had one of the worst shooting seasons of his career since |
| 1:41.6 | he was a six-man in Oklahoma City. He has a $47.4 million player option next season, but hasn't picked it up or declined it yet. |
| 1:50.5 | Regardless of the outcome tonight, the Sixers have a tough decision on their hands. |
| 1:55.3 | That they do. |
| 1:56.1 | And Mike Barter, coming over to you, speaking of decisions, we all have two decisions to make tonight between the 76ers |
| 2:04.5 | and the heat, the Mads and the Sons. |
| 2:06.6 | They've played 10 games total, and there's a serious trend that has formed. |
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