Monday's BEST BETS: Early NBA FINALS Picks + MLB + French Open

The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast

CBS Sports

Fantasy Sports, Sports, Football

3.8 • 744 Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Sia Nejad is joined by PropStarz, Mike Barner, and Mike McClure to give out their favorite Monday bets! (0:00) Intro (4:55) Mike's French Open Bets (8:40) PropStarz NFL Win Total Bet (10:44) NFL Win Total Discussion (14:25) SportsLine MLB Pick (17:55) Texans Win Total Thoughts (19:13) Mike's NBA Finals Series Pick (20:53) NBA Finals Thoughts and Predictions (24:28) Model HR Picks (27:30) Recap Screen #sportsbetting #StanleyCup #NBAFinals #MLBBets #MLBPicks 🎥 WATCH • Subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/@SportsLine • Watch CBS Sports HQ: https://cbssports.com/live • Watch CBS Sports Network on your TV or the CBS Sports App with your cable provider 🎧 LISTEN • Stream and follow & leave a 5⭐️ rating on Spotify: https://bit.ly/3URc49a • Download and follow & leave a 5⭐️ rating on Apple: https://apple.co/4hLfVhP • Other CBS Sports podcasts: https://cbssports.com/podcast 📱FOLLOW • Twitter: https://twitter.com/SportsLine • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sportsline • TikTok:https://www.tiktok.com/@sportsline 📖 READ • More betting news: https://www.sportsline.com/ 🛍️SUPPORT • Shop our merch: https://www.paramountshop.com/collections/the-early-edge 💵BETTING Looking for a specific game we haven’t covered? Head to https://www.sportsline.com, where you can always find best bets, picks and props. Any league. Any game. Any time. Both from the sharpest sports bettors in the business as well as the SportsLine Advanced Model, where we simulate each game 10,000 times and provide projected scores, graded bets, plus player prop projections. If you like it, use promo code EARLY to get your first 30 days FREE! 🎙ABOUT THE SHOW Welcome to The Early Edge! The No. 1 daily sports betting show and podcast powered by SportsLine + CBS Sports. If you’re looking for today’s best bets, in 20 minutes or less, we’re the show for you. Every morning at 10am ET The Early Edge is live breaking down the day’s action across the NFL, College Football, NBA, MLB, NHL, College Basketball, Soccer and more! No hot takes, The Early Edge is here to talk sports betting for both the first time bettor or sports book sharp and everyone in between. From spread betting to totals, player props to parlays and so much more, The Early Edge is here to win. Together. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the Early Edge.
0:10.6	As you can see, I am not at home.
0:13.0	I'm near headquarters in South Florida.
0:15.0	I'll be doing primetime pregame tonight from 6 to 7 on CBS Sports HQ.
0:19.8	But we have our regular field before we bring in the stars of the show.
0:23.9	And that includes you, Rob Johnson, Silas, C or C, Rill, Jeff Stenberg, Jason Pogwist, in the chat, Farsod.
0:30.1	Let's see how we did on Friday.
0:31.3	And it wasn't very good, folks.
0:32.8	This is not where we want to be.
0:34.4	One seven and one.
0:35.9	The golf picks actually went okay, considering the
0:39.3	circumstances. Chip hit his even money play. I miss my play. Brasco misses the UFC play buckets.
0:44.8	The sports line picks, it just didn't go well. Nothing else to say except we got to bounce back.
0:49.6	It's a slow day today, though. So we're going to bounce back. We only have a couple of picks on the show.
0:54.7	We've got an MLB sports line pick. We've got a tennis pick and a couple of futures. We're going
0:59.9	to pepper the board here with Mikey B, with prop stars, with Mike McClure. Well, let's see, where to
1:05.6	start. Mikey B. How are you doing today? And are you excited about this finals matchup? Yeah, very excited.
1:11.5	I'm great. Thanks. So we don't have any games until Thursday. This is your opportunity.
1:16.1	We had that every night with a basketball game alternating between the Eastern and Western
1:20.2	Conference final. If you've been ignoring your spouse, your significant other, because you've
1:24.9	been watching basketball every night. You've got three days
1:28.6	to make up for it. You put on whichever terrible show they like and you sit through it because
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