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The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast

NBA Friday BEST BETS and PROPS!

The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast

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4.5778 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2026

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Propstarz and Dvid Bearman dish out their favorite NBA bets and player props for Friday night's games between the 76ers-Knicks and Timberwolves-Spurs!


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compelling. And Prop Stars, I have to start with you here because this is your team. The Sixers and Nick's series, I think, is going to be very compelling. If I'm a Sixers fan, I'm not super daunted by being down to O here, Alex. I do want to get your opinion later on who wins that game. But more importantly, what's your favorite play in this one? Yeah, it's going to be backing Tyrese Maxie at just 24 and

0:22.7

a half points here, guys. I love this spot for Maxi heading back to Philadelphia. He played

0:28.5

47 minutes in game two. I think that you only missed one minute of playing time. I think that's

0:35.3

going to be the case again in a must win game three for the

0:38.7

Sixers coming home. If you look at Tyrese-Mexe splits with and without Joel Mbid, they remain

0:45.0

identical. He averages 28 points with Mbid this season, 28 points without him. If anything, he benefits

0:51.6

from a little less defensive attention when Abed is on the court,

0:55.5

but he's a usage monster regardless of if Embed suits up.

0:59.1

So the fact that you're getting a discount on this, even if Embedd does end up suiting up for

1:04.8

game three, I still think it's a great spot to back Maxie, and I think he goes over 25 points.

1:28.5

David, talk to me about Carl Anthony Towns because you like his assist prop, but you have a couple of different numbers you're toying with. I do. I've been playing at the entire postseason over three and a half and he's been hitting. It went up the four and a half before last night game and it hit anyway. He had six assists in the first 14 minutes bouncing around with foul trouble. If you go back to game one, he had six assists and only played 20 minutes because

1:33.1

of the blowout. Bottom line is he's averaging six assists per game over his eight postseason games,

1:38.0

and it's up to 7.8 assists if you go back to April 1. Now, the line moved up again, and most

1:43.6

books have it at five and a half,

1:45.5

but plus money, but you can still find, see some fives out there, five plus at minus 170,

1:51.2

so you can play it one or two ways. Either way, at minus 170 with the implied probability of

1:56.1

about 63%. He's hitting five or more at 66.5%, giving you some edge there. And if you decide to go to the over

2:03.9

5 and a half, that obviously shortens the number. He's only hit that in 8 of 12, but you're still talking

2:08.7

75% chance when the implied probability is in the 60. So you can play it either way at 5 plus it minus

2:16.2

the juice, or go ahead and take 6 or more at plus 118, which he's done in each of his last eight postseason games.

2:24.0

Yeah, I love all of what you said there, David. I do have to get your opinion. It's unofficial. These unofficial picks.

2:29.8

Again, I think this series is going to be very compelling. Who wins game three, David?

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