🏀 NBA Best Bets & Props for Friday, College Basketball Locks (1/8)
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Jonathan Coachman is joined by expert sports bettors Mike McClure, Zack Cimini and Larry Hartstein to dish out their best bets for a loaded night of NBA and college basketball action on Friday.
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| 0:00.0 | It is Friday, January 8, 2021, and we are ready for the weekend right here on the early |
| 0:11.2 | ads, the only daily sports betting podcast that's in your feed every single day, 365, |
| 0:16.5 | before 11 a.m. And we do it in 10 minutes or less. Our leader, Darth Vader, says the clock starts right now. I am the coach. Let's bring in my |
| 0:24.9 | cappers right now. The best in the business, the best games, the biggest sports. |
| 0:28.8 | Right below me, he's a DFS wizard. He's the owner of the official mascot of the show. Chief. |
| 0:35.2 | He is M squared. Mike McClure. Good morning. |
| 0:37.7 | Good morning, coach. Big, M squared. Mike McClure. Good morning. |
| 0:38.9 | Good morning, coach. |
| 0:40.5 | Big, big basketball today. |
| 0:41.7 | Cannot wait. |
| 0:43.8 | Oh, you sound so excited. |
| 0:44.7 | And then, right, he says, I'll bump. |
| 0:47.1 | Look who's back. |
| 0:48.5 | The Zach attack. |
| 0:49.6 | Ready to attack the board today. |
| 0:51.2 | Zach Simony, what's up, |
| 0:52.2 | Buck? |
| 0:53.0 | Yeah, I'm ready to attack the board today. Zach Simony, what's up, bud? Yeah, I'm ready to attack the board. |
| 0:59.4 | Three good plays today. Let's go. And then our leader, our guy, the maestro. Larry Hartstein, |
| 1:03.8 | upper right-hand corner. Larry, good morning. Good morning, coach. I knew Zach was going to come with a really obscure college basketball play, so I'm going to match him. Obscure, obscure, obscure. i don't know how to spell that though all right first game on the board for us |
| 1:11.7 | we're going straight to the NBA for our top NBA play of the day zach in honor of you i'm going to let |
| 1:17.6 | you go first what do you like i'm going to grab the detroit pistons plus seven and a half the phoenix |
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