Monday's BEST BETS: NBA Props + CBB + Early NFL Wild Card
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Sia Nejad is joined by Mike McClure, Larry Hartstein, and Mike Barner as they hand out their BEST BETS for the NBA and early NFL Wild Card game picks!
(0:00) Intro
(2:15) Week 18 Reactions
(5:38) Mikey B's NBA Props
(8:40) Larry's CBB Pick
(13:22) Free Sportsline Bets
(16:24) Mike's Tennis Pick
(19:52) Sia's Early NFL Wild Card Prop
(25:40) Bonus NBA Bets
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, everyone. |
| 0:10.2 | Welcome to the Early Edge. |
| 0:11.4 | My name is Cianajad, and we are brought to you by BetMGM, Make It Legendary, a great Monday show, but no Monday night football. |
| 0:19.0 | So you'll be curious, I'm sure, what picks we have today, tennis, anyone. |
| 0:23.5 | We've got a lot going on with the NBA, tennis, NFL, college basketball as well. |
| 0:28.4 | Let's take a look at the recap screen as I greet everybody in the chat. |
| 0:31.9 | Pogo picks, big cheesy D. Johnson in here, Farsod. |
| 0:35.8 | We go up six and seven, six, seven. I do want to explain my, my average QB parlay as I put it on Friday. I had actually put it in wrong, but in the sports line discord on Twitter and in the YouTube comments, I made sure everybody was very clear. That plus 105 needed Trevor Lawrence to have two plus touchdowns. Of course, that hits. Sports line picks go two out of three. |
| 1:13.1 | Mikey B goes one for two. Very easily could have been two for two as DeAren Fox lands on 24. Let's see who we have on the show today. Let's turn this six, seven, around to maybe seven, six, or maybe something even better than that. We've got to do better than six and seven regardless. We'll do it with Larry Hartstein, Mike McClure and Mikey B. |
| 1:29.8 | Where do I go first? Mikey B. I was going to go to you, because you know, you hate when you get hooked, right? But Larry, I'm going to start with you. Your reaction to Sunday. Oh, I have so many reactions, see, and the first one has to be, Congrats to you for winning a very tough field in the Sportsline Futures Championship. |
| 1:29.8 | It's a competition I finished second. And the first one has to be, congrats to you for winning a very tough field in the sports line futures championship. |
| 1:32.6 | It's a competition I finished second in the last two years. |
| 1:35.5 | I was hoping to get to the top, but you dominated. |
| 1:36.7 | So congrats to you. |
| 1:42.0 | Also, congrats to John Harbaugh for deciding, you know, we don't need another five or ten yards. We just saw Chris, Chris Boswell, one of the most |
| 1:44.8 | reliable kickers, have his PAT sale way wide right. So let's just give our rookie a 44-yarder, |
| 1:51.6 | even though I have a timeout in my back pocket. And then the other comment is, what about the |
| 1:56.3 | Eagles? They must not think the bears are that legit because they probably think, |
| 2:01.7 | hey, we're still get the second home game, even though we will take the three seed. |
| 2:06.2 | That was surprising because the two seed was there for the taking. |
| 2:09.7 | Well, it's interesting because, Mike, the Eagles were in a position to understand that the |
| 2:14.5 | lions and bears game, I mean, you have to know that the lions were rolling |
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