Tonight’s BEST BETS: MLB + 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
🗓️ 21 April 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Allan Bell is joined by Eric Cohen, Jason Spector, Larry Hartstein and Zack Cimini to bring you MORE best bets for Friday!
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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| 0:33.1 | What is up? Welcome to the Early Edge in Five. I'm your host, Alan Bell. We've got a fantastic show lined up for you today. And I'll tell you what, we're running deep on Friday, so we have no time to waste. Let's bring you the stars of the show. Get this thing fired up. And I'll tell you what. Said riches. Look at these riches right here. This bountiful. I love it. Spector, coming to you first. All right. You're our leadoff hitter. However, I hear that today somewhat of a special day, go ahead, break it down, and your picks. What do you get? Well, I mean, first off, we're just doing great today. The 76ers, Royce O'Neill had the Sixers spread. That's why he passed the ball in the back court for us to cover on that one. The Warriors finally got the rest to call some plays their way. We're going back strong. But most importantly, like you said, I got to give a shout out to my Uncle Randy. Happy birthday, Uncle Randy. He is the one who got me into sports. Lakers season tickets growing up. He'd take me all the games, including the 2010 Lakers Celtics finals. Hope you have a great birthday. He watches the show all the time, tails all the picks. So in honor of him, I'm picking somebody that he used a lot as well, but I generally like and the model likes as well. |
| 1:46.8 | Jalen Brunson over 24 and a half points at minus 121. Sportsline AI is predicting 27.3 points for him today. |
| 1:55.8 | In his first playoff game with the Knicks, he was limited due to foul trouble, only played 29 minutes, |
| 2:01.2 | yet still had 27 points. Second game was an absolute dud, only 20 points, went 5 of 17 from the |
| 2:08.9 | floor, one of eight from three. But he's not going to shoot that way again. It's very unlikely he'll |
| 2:14.8 | shoot 12% from the three point line and 29% from the floor |
| 2:19.0 | even with the calves having a large lead in that second game he played 36 minutes it was a close |
| 2:24.4 | game expected a night he could play 40 plus minutes and giving him plenty of opportunity to go |
| 2:29.7 | over this line there we go and I'll tell you what, great pick. Happy birthday. And now we have to |
| 2:38.1 | address that was something positive. Now we have something kind of wild brewing here. All right, |
| 2:42.8 | so the maestro, all right, for anyone that is new to the early edge family and crew, |
| 2:48.1 | the final spot on the show is known as the Maestro spot, right? He is our |
| 2:53.3 | cleanup hitter. He brings us home. That being said, our man, EC, appears to be taking control |
| 3:01.2 | of his own and establishing that. So Maestro, I don't know how you feel about it, but I'll toss it |
| 3:06.8 | you to you. You're hitting second here. What do you got? I'm happy to give up that spot as long as EC goes 3 and 0, 4 and 0 or 5 in 0 or however many picks he's going to give out today. I got three plays I love, and one of them is the back court mate that Spector talked about, and that's Quentin Grimes. He's the defensive stopper. He's the guy who guards Donovan Mitchell, but he's also a great shooter, 48% from deep over his last nine regular season games, 45% from deep in the second half of the season, but he's done nothing in the first two games, nine points in 49 minutes at home tonight. He said he's going to be more aggressive. He says he's going to let |
| 3:41.9 | it fly. This is his first playoff series. I think he'll be more comfortable at home over eight and a half |
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