🏀🏈 NBA Bets for Thursday, Top Picks for College Hoops + Bowl Game Selections (12/31)
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2020
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Jonathan Coachman is joined by expert sports bettors Mike McClure and Larry Hartstein to handicap Thursday’s NBA and CBB action. We also give out No. 1 CFB expert Barrett Sallee’s pick for the Arizona Bowl.
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| 0:00.0 | It is Thursday, December 31st, 2020. |
| 0:08.0 | That means only one thing. |
| 0:10.0 | It is New Year's Eve. |
| 0:12.0 | It is the final day of a year that all of us would like to put in the rear view. |
| 0:17.0 | But one of the positives that came out of this year, this show. |
| 0:20.0 | The Early Edge, powered by Sports show, the early edge powered by |
| 0:21.8 | Sports Line, the only daily sports betting podcast in your feed before 11 a.m. every single |
| 0:28.4 | day, seven days a week. And we do it all in 10 minutes or less. I'm your leader of the coach, |
| 0:34.0 | and we have the best bets, the best cappers from the biggest sports all over the world. |
| 0:39.7 | So let's jump right in because we have had a lot to get to today. |
| 0:42.5 | Let's bring in our cappers. |
| 0:43.7 | First, on the bottom center in your screen, we call him M Squared. |
| 0:48.7 | Mike McClure, a DFS wizard. |
| 0:52.1 | Good morning and welcome to the final day of this atrocious 2020 year. |
| 0:57.0 | I cannot wait to move into 2021. I love the new nickname. And once again, Chief approves of the nickname here. |
| 1:03.6 | So let's do it. Thank you, Chief. And in the upper right-hand corner, he runs the show. He is our he's our rock he's our post he is the man senior |
| 1:11.6 | analyst at sportsline dot com sportsline app he has got winners all over the board in the last week |
| 1:18.1 | the maestro larry hardstein good morning sir good morning coach i'm still recovering from kairi irving |
| 1:24.4 | taking 27 shots and not getting over his prop by half a point. |
| 1:28.5 | But you know what? We move forward. It's all about moving forward. We learned that from you. |
| 1:33.7 | All right, here we go. First game on our board today. We're going straight back to the association. |
| 1:38.1 | Kyrie, you can't scare us. Not for a second. We're going to go out west. Suns at the Jazz, our good friends at William Hill, minus three and a half for Utah, the total of 218. |
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