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You Better You Bet

Tonight's NBA & College Hoops Best Bets

You Better You Bet

Audacy

Sports

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2026

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Nick Kostos breaks down how he's looking to bet tonight's NBA & College Basketball slate.

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0:00.0

Now, back to you better you bet with Nick Costos on Westwood One Sports.

0:06.8

Some thank you, Sidola, before we wrap up the phenomenal football Friday edition of You Better

0:10.6

You bet with a bunch of bets for today, easy for me to say, New Year.

0:15.9

Give me a break.

0:18.3

All my bets for tonight and a couple of bets for this weekend in the NFL in the world of sports.

0:23.1

Thanks to our one wonderful guest, the coach Dave Wonstead for joining us on the show.

0:26.5

Our executive producer today, in for Bill Zimmerman, the great Tyler Morales, who I didn't ask,

0:31.1

but I'm sure is pulling double duty as our tactical director as well.

0:34.0

Thank you very much, Tyler.

0:35.3

Our engineer, awesome first week for him on the show. We love our friend Kenny Henderson, downtown Mike Brown and Dan Turner. I'm going to come up with a tag team name for you guys, and that'll be the bit. I just don't know what it's going to be yet. But thanks to Mike and thanks to Dan for holding it down and making me look good on the video side. John Lund follows me here on Westwood won sports, but for now, let's drop the dope-ass

0:56.6

beat and get to the bets.

0:59.8

We want all our betmgm players to receive an NBA odds boost token to use the token

1:04.8

and a wager made up of NBA bets to your bet slip and activate the token.

1:09.0

If you win the wager that was made with the token, you'll receive extra winnings and unrestricted bonus dollars. Download the BetMGM app and visit Betmgmgm. All right, I'm going to give you some bets for tonight in the NBA. Let's roll with it. Oh, the San Antonio Spurs are getting bet against right now. I wonder if anybody's out. I'm going to do a quick refresh here and let's see.

1:39.9

Ah, yes, Victor Wenbanyama has officially been ruled out as expected. He got, it was a bit of a scare the other night and the win against the Knicks on New Year's Eve, which the Knicks covered, thanks to a late Jalen Brunson 3. I bet the Knicks that was awesome. But you know how we do this.

1:42.6

When B's out, we bet the San Antonio Spurs.

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So let's see how low it goes.

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I'm going to bet the Spurs tonight in Indiana against the Pacers. We bet, well, I wasn't on the air, but I bet the Nuggets the other night against the Toronto. First game without Yokic. This is the second game without Yokic tonight. And Yonis Valanchunis, Yokich's backup just got hurt. The Nuggets or the walking wounded. they are going to play the Cleveland Cavaliers. The Cavs are 13.5 point favorites.

2:04.3

I think the Cavs are going to win by 30 tonight. Give me the Cleveland Cavaliers laying it against the Denver Nuggets. Also, the Nix are hosting the Atlanta Hawks. The Knicks are currently... Let's see. Is this game off the board? Tyler, try and find what the line of this game is. Trey Young is questionable. If Trey Young... Listen to me here. If Trey Young plays, I know it's at the Garden. I'm betting the Knicks. If Trey Young misses, I'm betting the Hawks. The Hawks are way better without Trey Young on the court. That's been proven this season. And I'll bet Memphis as a dog on the road in Los Angeles against the Lakers. College basketball. We bet Louisville on Tuesday night on the road at Cal. They're on their West Coast swing. They covered. Tonight, I want to take the points with Stanford. Stanford plus eight and a half against Louisville. I'm going to lay Nebraska on the money line against Michigan State minus 130. And just to say this, because I think it's crazy, Michigan, the number one team in

2:56.1

college hoops, is a 21.5 point favorite against 24th ranked to USC. I'm not betting the game.

3:02.4

I'm just saying I think that that's wild. And I'll give you a two-team teaser to wrap up

3:06.9

the bets here and wrap up the

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