Thursday's BEST BETS: MLB + NBA Playoffs Picks & Props! | The Early Edge
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Sia Nejad is joined by Mike McClure, Propstarz and Matt Snyder to dish out Thursday's best bets!
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| 1:04.4 | Good morning, Early Edge family says Reed Phillips. I say that to you as well. It is a beautiful Thursday morning. We've got |
| 1:12.2 | golf coming up. We've got day baseball, night baseball, NBA playoffs, NHL playoffs. There's so much to |
| 1:19.2 | tackle. But before we do that, let's look at how we did yesterday. We were coming off a five and |
| 1:24.3 | two day and we run it back with four and one. The lone loss, listen, the Pacers have been playing. The Knicks very tough. Maybe not getting the benefit of all the calls away from home. Either way, we'll take four and one all day. These first fives that I've had this week, three and oh so far, been a little sweaty on a couple of them, but we get the wins. Liddy, good morning, Mark, good morning. Nick Kestrucci, good morning. Snug the cap. Brandon Silva, Rob, Mark, good morning. Hit the like button. Let's bring in the stars of the show because we got to cover Major League Baseball and we've got sniper for that and Mike McClure for that. We got to cover the NBA. We got to cover the NHL. And speaking of the NBA prop, I want to start with you here because for all of you that |
| 2:07.0 | are not a member of sports line, you wouldn't know this. But last night, a guy that doesn't pick |
| 2:11.6 | a lot of NBA games. That's me. I put in the Pacers minus four and a half because I knew that line was |
| 2:16.9 | going to shoot up with news of O.G. |
| 2:18.9 | And Anobi probably not playing all the injuries they already had to Mitchell Robinson. |
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