🏀 Early Edge in 5: NBA Playoff Picks, Props + Parlays for Celtics-Heat (5/17)
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, SportsLine
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2022
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
Jonathan Coachman is joined by Alex Selesnick (aka PropStarz) and Mike Barner to preview tonight's NBA playoff action.
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| 0:28.7 | what's good everybody welcome into early edge Five. We do this whenever there's big games in the evening time for NBA. |
| 0:43.8 | Best bets and storylines tonight. The Easter Conference Finals begins with the Celtics on the road to Miami Heat. |
| 0:48.9 | Let's bring in the stars of the show because we have no time to waste. I am the coach. There's Mikey B. There is prop stars. Let's get right into it. Alex, I'm coming to you first because we have a little dissension in |
| 0:58.5 | the ranks this morning. Our man, Zach, he likes Market Smart over 13 and a half points. With that |
| 1:04.5 | being said, what's your storyline? Yeah, so there's some interesting news regarding smart |
| 1:08.3 | status coach. He's still questionable to play tonight when the team begins its Eastern Conference final series against Miami at FTX Arena. He's battling a mid right foot sprain. He's still pretty sore Celtics coach. Imi Udocha said Tuesday morning. He tested it out a little bit here. We're hoping he's feeling better. There's still |
| 1:27.9 | some soreness there, some swelling. We'll monitor him throughout the day and get some |
| 1:32.0 | treatments. He'll still be lessed as questionable. He hurt his foot in Game 7's win over the |
| 1:37.7 | bucks on Sunday afternoon. He plays a very important role for this Boston defense as the defensive |
| 1:43.2 | player of the year award winner. |
| 1:45.4 | He can defend all five positions. |
| 1:47.3 | He can shut down the league's top perimeter scores. |
| 1:49.9 | If he plays in game one, he'll likely match up against several of the Keats' top scores, |
| 1:53.9 | such as Jimmy Butler, Tyler, Hero. |
| 1:55.9 | If he doesn't play, Celtics cards, Derek White, and Peyton Pritchard should receive a lot more playing time than |
| 2:01.0 | normal. So very interesting development to watch. All right. We'll keep track of your play coming up in |
| 2:07.0 | just a couple of minutes. Now, let's go over to Mikey B. Because we have, I think this is going to be |
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