Monday's BEST BETS: Pacers-Thunder PREDICTIONS + HR Picks

The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast

CBS Sports

Fantasy Sports, Sports, Football

3.8 • 744 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Sia Nejad is joined by PropStarz, Matt Snyder, Mackenzie Brooks, and Mike Barner as they give out their FAVORITE Monday bets for the NBA Finals Game 5, MLB, and more! (0:00) Intro + Trade Reactions from Bane and Devers Trades (8:38) PropStarz Finals Game 5 Prop + BONUS NFL Future (12:30) Mackenzie's Finals Game 5 Bet (17:00) Model HR Plays (18:00) Snyper's MLB Bets + HR Picks (23:15) Mike's Game 5 Prop (24:45) Ben's OKC 1H Bet Discussion (29:45) Recap #sportsbetting #bestbets #MLBPicks #MLBBets #NBAFinals #Pacers #NBAFinalsBets #Thunder 🎥 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	What's up, everyone?
0:09.2	Welcome to the Early Edge.
0:10.5	We are brought to you by BetMGM.
0:12.6	And ladies and gentlemen, the countdown continues.
0:14.7	We are Geronimo Allison days away from football season.
0:19.0	Put your favorite 81 in the chat.
0:20.8	I see most of you already doing that.
0:23.1	What's up, Chris Kish? What's up CID? Joe Newinfeld Lid Lididididid, Liddy is in here. The sniper's
0:28.0	already causing trouble in the chat. Speaking of trouble, let's look at the recap screen to see how we did
0:33.1	here. Heartbreak on My Siwu Kim, Top Korean at plus 225. Tom Kim chases him down. We lose that one.
0:40.2	We go three and six overall losing by the hook on a couple of picks. McKenzie's pick,
0:45.1	Zach's pick, lose by the hook there. I did hit my plus 110. A lot of plus money plays on this show,
0:51.0	but nonetheless, a three and six recap screen buckets goes one for two there.
0:55.4	But we've got a great cast on a Monday, a really great cast. Let's bring in the stars of the show.
0:59.4	We've got a lot to talk about NBA, MLB. It's a big day on both fronts. We got Mackenzie Brooks.
1:04.9	We got the sniper. We got Mikey B and we got prop stars and prop stars. I do need to start with you. Some news in MLB, some news in the NBA.
1:12.5	Let's start with the Desmond Bain trade. Yesterday, it was Desmond Bain for a couple of players,
1:17.6	Contavius called Welpope, somebody else that I'm forgetting, and four first round picks.
1:22.3	Your reaction. Yeah, I love this trade for the Orlando Magic, the four first-round picks, three of those are unprotected first-round picks from Orlando,
1:32.8	which I don't expect to be lottery picks, considering you've got Powell Benkerro, Franz Wagner, Jalen Suggs,
1:39.4	and now Desmond Bain, to me, that's a very formidable team.
1:43.5	And then the Phoenix pick, which is the
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