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The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast

Monday's BEST BETS: NBA Picks and Props + College Basketball

The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast

CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks

Football, Sports

4.5778 Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Monday's BEST BETS with Sia Nejad, Larry Hartstein, Tom Casale, and Mike Barner as they hand out their plays for the NBA, college basketball, and MORE!


(0:00) Intro

(3:53) Super Bowl Reactions/Bet Recap

(7:50) Is NBA Tanking Getting Out of Hand?

(11:48) Tom's College Basketball Bet

(13:45) Mikey B's NBA Props

(17:19) Tom's Arizona-Kansas Bets

(21:47) Larry's NBA Prop

(23:52) Bonus Bets (NBA props, CBB)


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the Early Edge. We are brought to by BetMGM, Make It Legendary. I got to tell you, I mean, sorry for the wordplay, but legendary recap screens upcoming. Not necessarily because they're amazing, although they are pretty good. Let's take a look at how we did because we had the special Super Bowl show, but of course we had the Friday recap screen. And I'll be honest, we had so many picks over the last two weeks. We might have forgotten one here. Ben's got a really tough job, particularly on the Monday after the Super Bowl. But the Friday recap, non-super Bowl-related picks, we go six and three. You absolutely love to see that. Buckets goes two out of three. He's in the chat, by the way. Ask your soccer questions there. Danny Brasco goes two out of three. Mike McClure hits his pick. I hit my round two, three ball matchup. So we'll take six and three every time.

0:55.4

Check out the picks from our Super Bowl show. You all can help me count this up, but let's just

1:00.2

give a shout out to some people there. EC goes one and oh here, five and oh on the site.

1:05.3

We got Will Brinson splitting. Danny Brasco goes two for two, RJ one for two. I hit my play, 13 in a row for me

1:12.5

on the NFL prop show. How about that? Meg Schaup three out of four. You absolutely love to

1:18.5

see it. Brady Cannon from a couple weeks ago hits that Drake May play over a half in interception.

1:25.5

I mean, ladies and gentlemen, that was incredible. I feel kind of bad for Ben

1:29.9

that he's got to collect all of this data, put it together for you. But let's get on to the here

1:34.0

and now. Let's get on to the president. I do want to ask about the Super Bowl. And I've got an

1:37.5

NBA question for Mikey B regarding the Utah Jazz. But let's start with football. Larry, your reaction to the Super Bowl.

1:46.0

Well, it was kind of you see,

1:47.4

and not to mention my prop performance yesterday on the morning show.

1:50.8

I did hit the side, but the props did not go the way I liked it.

1:54.3

And Tom and I both were probably thinking the same thing

1:56.9

when Hunter Henry went for that two-point conversion and got dazed

2:00.6

and then was not in on the final garbage drive where he could have cashed not only the catches but the yards, but that's how it goes.

2:08.5

I mean, I don't know how much there is to talk about with the Super Bowl, Sia, because it was dominance, you know, from start to finish the school final score, I don't think is indicative of the difference between the two teams that Seattle defense proved, yes, not only was it the best this season, but according to DBOA, one of the best in history.

2:27.9

You know, maybe Josh Allen, maybe a different offense gives them more of a run for their money.

2:33.3

But like I've been saying for two weeks,

2:35.2

the Rams are the only offense that has succeeded, has had any success against this defense

2:40.8

in four months. Yeah, I mean, I think what the Patriots needed is NFL MVP Matthew Stafford.

2:47.1

That's for the Patriots fans out there. Tom, your reaction to the Super Bowl. I mean,

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