Thursday's BEST BETS: Cavs vs. Knicks Gm 2 + Canadiens vs. Canes Gm 1 + MLB
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Join experts Sia Nejad, Amags, Snyder, Mike McClure, and Mike Barner as they dish out their picks for Cavs vs. Knicks, NHL, MLB, and MORE!
(0:00) Intro
(2:45) Recap Screen and NBA Props Recap
(4:10) SGA Foul-Baiting?
(5:28) Amags' MLB Prop
(8:25) Mike's PGA Prop
(11:49) Free Sportsline MLB Prop
(13:40) Mikey B's Cavs-Knicks Bets
(17:25) Sia's PGA Props
(19:00) Snyper's MLB Bets
(21:39) Bonus Cavs-Knicks Bets
(25:15) NHL Canadiens-Canes Gm 1 Picks
(26:27) HR Chart Picks
(28:20) Bonus MLB, NBA Bets
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, everyone. |
| 0:10.1 | Welcome to the Early Edge, brought to you by BedMGM, Make It Legendary. |
| 0:14.0 | My name is Cia Najat, and we've got a great show for you today. |
| 0:18.0 | But before we bring in the stars of the show, which of course include Liddy and |
| 0:21.7 | Steve Fulcherts and Pogo picks and Big Cheesy Scott Edwards in the chat. Let's see how we did yesterday. We have two recap screens because we had the special NBA show. Morning show goes five and two. How about the sports line picks going three and no. |
| 0:33.2 | Shout out to Larry Hartstein for hitting OKC minus six and a half. |
| 0:35.8 | And Tom Casally for the Carter Hart saves prop. |
| 0:39.1 | Let's see how we did on the NBA show. Shout out to Larry Hartstein for hitting OKC minus six and a half and Tom Casally for the Carter Hart saves prop. |
| 0:39.1 | Let's see how we did on the NBA show. |
| 0:41.2 | I think we were affected a little bit by some injuries here. |
| 0:44.5 | We go two and three overall, still a winning record for those NBA shows that we've done five of so far. |
| 0:51.8 | Well, let's do today's show right now. |
| 0:53.2 | Let's bring in the stars of the show. |
| 0:55.3 | What a cast we have on a Thursday. Well, we got Mike McClure. We got A-Mags and Sniper and |
| 1:01.8 | Mikey B. Wow, this is an embarrassment of riches. Mikey B, I'll have you respond to game |
| 1:06.9 | two of Spurs OKC last night. That was a bummer. |
| 1:16.2 | I had mentioned immediately after game one, I put something on on Twitter, how great of a game it was. And now we see if there's any injuries. |
| 1:18.1 | And there were two last night because these guys just can't play as many minutes. |
| 1:22.2 | And Jaylon Williams got hurt. |
| 1:23.4 | He had been out for so long. |
| 1:25.2 | Then I believe he played 37 minutes in that double overtime game one hamstring again. Dylan Harper played 47 minutes in game one. He was regularly under 30 minutes a game. He was like 23, 24 minutes a game during the regular season. He got hurt in game two. I hate when injuries come into play, but it looks like we got a couple of important ones here going forward. Absolutely. |
| 2:01.5 | And we'll have picks on the Knicks game, the Knicks game against the Cavaliers tonight. Mike McClure, I know I have golf picks. Do you have golf picks today? I have golf picks today. I see sports line account in the chat. Yeah, I think everyone's thought. SGA literally falls on every shot trying to get a foul. It's part of what he does. |
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