Tonight’s BEST BETS: College Basketball + NBA and More! | The Early Edge in 5
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2023
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
Jonathan Coachman is joined by Eric Cohen, Mike Barner and Jason Spector to bring you MORE best bets for Thursday!
ABOUT THE SHOW: Welcome to The Early Edge! The No. 1 daily sports betting show and podcast powered by SportsLine + CBS Sports. If you’re looking for today’s best bets, in 20 minutes or less, we’re the show for you. Every morning at 10am ET The Early Edge is live breaking down the day’s action across the NFL, College Football, NBA, MLB, NHL, College Basketball, Soccer and more!
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| 0:00.0 | I'll now hand you over to my best man, Eddie. |
| 0:04.0 | Wow, wow, wow, second time's a charm, eh, Billy Boy? |
| 0:09.0 | Oh God. |
| 0:10.0 | Substitution, courtesy of Paddy Power, embarrassing Eddie, makes way for sensible Samuel. |
| 0:15.0 | Cool, that was close. |
| 0:16.0 | You might not always pick the right starter, but your sub can still deliver, |
| 0:19.0 | because with Paddy's super sub, your bet rolls over to the player coming on. |
| 0:22.4 | Panny Power. |
| 0:23.3 | Valid on selected leagues and markets only. |
| 0:24.9 | Prematch and in-play bets on qualifying player outcome selections only. |
| 0:27.3 | T's and Cs and exclusions apply. |
| 0:28.6 | 18 plus scummelware.org. |
| 0:35.0 | What's good, everybody? |
| 0:35.9 | Welcome in to the Early Edge and Five more best bets for the night in the sports. |
| 0:39.7 | We have absolutely no time to waste. Let's bring in the stars of the show. Mikey B. Speckty is here. |
| 0:45.2 | Speculator. Let's get it started. What do you like today? |
| 0:47.8 | Hey, we're going to make this one real fast for your coach. Clippers, bucks, over 230. Sportsline AI is projecting 232. Two defensively minded teams, however, |
| 0:57.5 | last two matchups last season, 250 total, 272 total. Last 10 games, Clippers, 117.5 points per game. |
| 1:05.9 | Bucks, 121.1.1.8 points per game in their last 10 for such high numbers on both of these two. |
| 1:12.4 | We've got to take a flyer on the over. |
| 1:14.3 | I like it a lot. And both Paul George and Kauai Leonard should be playing tonight. So that helps. All right. Mike Barner, talk to me. What do you like tonight? All right. We're going to go to the Lakers and Pacers game. We're going to do LeBron James over seven and a half rebounds at minus 130 on Draft Kings. |
| 1:28.1 | He has at least eight rebounds in 11 straight games. |
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