Friday's BEST BETS: NBA Picks + College Basketball + Genesis Invitational
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Happy BPE Friday! Sia Nejad is joined by Chip Patterson, Buckets, Danny Brasco, and Mike McClure as they hand out their BEST BETS for the NBA, College Basketball, and MORE!
(0:00) Intro
(5:34) Buckets' Big Question
(7:20) Buckets' Soccer Bets
(10:22) Mike's Genesis Prop
(15:11) Free Sportsline NBA Prop
(17:00) Danny's UFC Fight Night Bets
(22:05) Buckets' Rapid Fire Soccer Bets
(23:57) Chip's College Basketball Bets
(31:18) Sia's Genesis Bet
(34:27) BONUS Bets!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, everyone. |
| 0:10.8 | Welcome to the Early Edge, brought to you by BedMGM, Make It Legendary, saying |
| 0:15.5 | hi to Liddy in the chat, M Baller in the chat. |
| 0:18.1 | Farzad is in here. |
| 0:19.5 | You all probably want to know how we did on the recap screen before we bring in the stars of the show. It's another good day. That's three in a row for us, five and two, five and two. And now four and two. I hit my golf bet. I will say, though, one of them is still pending the Wyndham Clark three ball, the plus money three balls. So we're going to have to wait for round one to finish. I'm trailing by two strokes there, but we still got nine holes to play. Mike McClure hits his. Larry goes one for two. We hit the sports line pick very easily. Boston, actually not very easily. Golden State kind of got back into that one, but that one was pretty much coasting the whole way. Ladies and gentlemen, though, we got to turn the |
| 0:54.6 | page. It's been a very good week of picks, but we're not really as interested in picks as we are, |
| 1:01.4 | BPE Friday. |
| 1:08.4 | Oh, here we go. Yeah, that's what I expected for Mike McClough. |
| 1:12.9 | Danny Brasco. |
| 1:14.6 | We got a bucket and we've got Chip Patterson. |
| 1:17.7 | Ladies and gentlemen, it's Friday. |
| 1:19.2 | Chip doesn't know this or he might not know this. |
| 1:21.1 | We've already stolen two of his picks from Sportsline earlier in the week. |
| 1:24.9 | He's already gone 2 and O playing with house money this week. |
| 1:28.8 | Chip Patterson, can you hit us with a chip me up? Good morning, see you, go, morning, Bucket's good morning, Daddy, good morning, Mike, go, morning, Matt. Good morning, Hurley, Hedge, fam. Oh, baby, look at, look at see you right there, just glug, glug, glug, glug, putting that gas in my tank to just get me rip-roar, ready to go into that top gear. |
| 1:46.3 | We've got a couple top gear. |
| 1:47.6 | College basketball picks fired up, wearing my Carolina hurricanes. |
| 1:51.5 | Because we got Seth Jarvis. |
| 1:52.7 | We got Sebastian Ajo. |
| 1:54.0 | We got Jacob Slavin. |
| 1:55.2 | Oh, just a couple of canes out here in the semifinals of the men's Olympic hockey. |
| 1:58.7 | Cannot wait. |
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