Top 3 Bets for Saturday | NBA & NHL Picks

The Daily Juice - BettingPros

iHeartPodcasts and The Volume

Sports

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2026

⏱️ 15 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

The Daily Juice is back with your Saturday, April 18th betting preview as we roll deeper into a packed sports weekend. With the NBA postseason heating up, the NHL playoff race tightening, and major matchups across the board, Matt breaks down where the value is and how to approach today’s slate. After a strong read on Friday’s card, we’re staying disciplined and looking for spots where the numbers don’t quite match the situation. From playoff intensity on the hardwood to key late-season positioning on the ice, today’s episode focuses on game script, tempo, and market movement to find an edge.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.6	Guaranteed human.
0:19.8	What's up, guys?
0:20.5	How are you? Welcome into a Saturday morning episode of the Daily Juice podcast.
0:24.3	My name is Matt Peralt. You guys can follow me across all of my socials at Sports Talk, Matt,
0:29.3	and we come to you on a Friday night taping onto a Saturday card where I don't know what happened here with the sons and the warriors.
0:39.7	At the moment, it's halftime and it's not, it's okay.
0:44.6	They're losing.
0:45.6	The warriors are down.
0:46.9	The sons are covering.
0:48.2	We might get there.
0:49.4	We might not.
0:50.1	I don't know how the second half is going to go.
0:52.2	So it's just a one in one mark from our card from Thursday.
0:56.6	We got the baseball bet right.
0:58.7	Charlotte bet wrong.
1:00.1	They got destroyed.
1:01.6	And I mean destroyed in their game.
1:04.3	More on that game here in just one second.
1:06.6	But we got that wrong.
1:07.7	So the Thursday card is writing on the Warriors.
1:12.9	The unfortunate news is that the hard rock bet of the day goes down. We're back down to 24, 24 and 1 on the hard rock bet of the day
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from iHeartPodcasts and The Volume, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of iHeartPodcasts and The Volume and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.