Monday's BEST BETS: NBA + College Basketball + World Baseball Classic

The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast

CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks

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4.5 • 778 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Get some picks to start your week! Join Sia Nejad, Larry Hartstein, Mike McClure, Amags, and Mike Barner as they give out their plays for the NBA, College Basketball, WBC, and MORE!

(0:00) Intro

(6:23) Mikey B's NBA Props

(8:55) Mike's College Basketball Bet

(10:48) Sia's The Players +2500 Pick

(15:55) Amags' WBC Bet and MLB Future

(21:30) Larry's College Basketball Bet

(23:26) BONUS NBA, WBC, Golf Bets

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Good morning, everyone.
0:10.0	Welcome to the Early Edge, brought to by BetMGM, Make It Legendary.
0:14.1	My name is Cienajad, otherwise known as the counselor of cash.
0:16.7	And I got to point out all the positivity going on in the chat.
0:19.2	I see Danny Brasco in the chat.
0:20.7	I see Chris Kish, Eric, David, Jeremy Brooks, Rick Funcannon in here, among others. Please hit the like button. Absolutely love the positivity on a Monday morning. Let's see if our recap screen was positive. It was 10 and 7. Look at all the plus money plays. Marginal plus money. Brasco didn't have the best
0:39.3	day, but he does hit that plus 140. I've got a plus number in front of mine. B buckets goes three for
0:44.3	three, including that even money play. We almost hit the plus 240 play from Tom Casale. That one falls
0:50.6	just short. Shout out to Mikey B. who goes two for two again with a plus money play. And Chip Patterson, 10 and 7 is certainly a good day. And we're going to try to improve on this day with, I mean, this is a dream team. And then we also get Angelo Magliocca back, aka A. Mags. Amags, I got to start with you. Of course, we have Mike McClure here, Larry Hardstein and Mikey B as well and all of you in the chat. Amags, you're back. And when I say back, I mean like, you're back back. It's MLB season. I know we're going to talk WBC a little bit today as well, but how you doing, buddy? Oh, yeah, it's definitely MLB season. I mean, my head is kind of spinning between trying to get the WBC game on and then I still got the Yankee spring
1:31.3	training. Oh, yeah, it's definitely MLB season. I mean, my head is kind of spinning between trying to get
1:28.2	the WBC game on and then I still got the Yankee Spring training over here and I'm trying
1:32.5	to figure out what's going on in each spot. So it's been a lot of fun the last few days to have
1:36.6	the WBC around. And the betting is really only heating up at this point. We're finally getting to
1:41.8	these rivalry games now, Dominican Republic,
1:45.5	Venezuela, USA, Mexico, where they're fighting for the top spot in the pool. So that'll be fun
1:50.4	over the next couple of days. I can't wait. Hit the like button for AMAX. Let's get to 200 while
1:54.7	we're live, maybe 5, 600 throughout the course of the day. Mike McClure, there's been some NFL news.
2:00.2	I know we're going to talk basketball today.
2:01.9	A lot of basketball, some baseball.
2:03.4	I've got a PGA pick for everybody as well.
2:05.9	But, I mean, we just heard about Tua being released by the dolphins.
2:09.2	Not a huge surprise.
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