Monday's BEST BETS: NBA Playoffs + NHL Playoffs + MLB
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Our expert handicappers Sia Nejad, Mike Barner, Larry Hartstein, Tom Casale, and Amags dish out their picks for the NBA and NHL playoffs, MLB, and MORE!
(0:00) Intro
(3:44) Amags' MLB Bet
(6:40) Mikey B's NBA Props
(14:13) Tom's NHL Pick
(18:50) Larry's NBA Picks
(22:35) Sia's Golf Longshot
(25:02) Model HR Chart
(26:35) Bonus MLB, NBA, NHL Picks
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the Early Edge, brought to you by BetMGM. We hope your Monday |
| 0:14.3 | and your week is starting out great, or at least a little bit better than our recap screen |
| 0:19.9 | from Friday. |
| 0:21.4 | Three and seven overall, me and Chip lose our golf plays. |
| 0:24.8 | I got to say, Larry Hartstein saves the day, goes two for two. |
| 0:28.7 | Sports line picks go one for two, including that plus 115 that Michael Roberts put out there. |
| 0:34.1 | That was a very dramatic Reds game against the Tigers with a rain delay and a walk off to run Homer. But we got to walk off this three and seven. We got to shake it off and we got to bring in the stars of the show. As I look at the comments, Rick Funcanon and says, Cub squad ride today. I know, I know A-Mags is on it too. amags, we're going to get to that in a little bit. We got Larry Hart's team. |
| 0:54.3 | We got Tom Casale and Mikey B. Mikey B. NBA playoffs, we're still in round one, a long way to go. How are you feeling? Yeah, we could see a couple of eliminations today. The Nuggets are down three ones of the Timberwolves and the best player in the NBA, Ayal Dusuma, who's worth at least a second round pick. |
| 1:12.3 | And then we could see the Sons here eliminated tonight. number wolves and the best player in the NBA, Iio D'Souma, who's worth at least a second round |
| 1:11.4 | pick. And then we could see the sons here eliminated tonight too. All right. Larry, I got to thank |
| 1:17.7 | you for saving the recap screen. It was still a negative recap screen, but good job from you going |
| 1:23.2 | two for two. Are we coming back today with some NBA? Yeah, totally dialed in on these NBA playoffs. |
| 1:28.6 | It's interesting. You know, the Cavs, we thought that was going to be a walkover. That's two to two. |
| 1:33.3 | Donovan Mitchell can't come through late. There's some interesting playoff series. And then, of course, |
| 1:38.0 | we have Thunder Suns, not so interesting. Tom, where are you at today? Are we going with MLB? |
| 1:43.5 | We got NHL today, maybe a college |
| 1:45.9 | football win total future. What's happening? A little hockey today. We're in the middle of the |
| 1:51.4 | playoffs. I always like to watch the first game or so of those series and see how it's playing out |
| 1:57.1 | and then come in and hit some sides in total. So I got a total on NHL playoffs today. |
| 2:03.2 | I know we have NHL picks on Sportsline, Sportsline.com as well. |
| 2:08.3 | And we're on CBS Sports Network today. |
| 2:10.6 | We've got three soccer segments for Champions League to start out the show. |
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