Tuesday's BEST BETS: NBA Picks + College Basketball + Champions League
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
It's TALK BACK TUESDAY with Sia Nejad, Tom Casale, Propstarz, Buckets, and Jeff Hochman! They answer your questions and hand out their plays for the NBA, College Basketball, Golf, and MORE!
(0:00) Intro
(4:45) Tom's College Basketball Parlay
(6:47) Buckets' Soccer Bets
(9:35) Free Sportsline CBB Betes
(12:45) Propstarz NBA Props
(17:15) Jeff's College Basketball Bet
(19:35) Bonus Soccer Picks, NBA Props, CBB Picks
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, everyone. |
| 0:10.9 | Welcome to the Early Edge. |
| 0:12.1 | We are brought to you by BetMGM, Make It Legendary. |
| 0:15.5 | We've got a great show for you today. |
| 0:17.8 | On Talkback Tuesday, we have your picks. |
| 0:19.6 | But on Tuesday, we want to make sure we answer your questions and get you some additional picks as well. |
| 0:25.4 | Let's take a look at the recap screen before we bring in the stars of the show. We go two and three. |
| 0:31.9 | Mikey B goes one for two, but Mikey B hit the Pampers parley on the show yesterday at plus 184. |
| 0:37.0 | So that's an additional one that you all probably cashed. I miss my play. Mike McClure misses his. Larry Hartstein hits Scambling State minus 16 and a half. Ladies and gentlemen, it is a great show because we have a great cast. And that includes all of you. Let's bring in the stars of the show. Ladies and gentlemen, check this out. We got |
| 0:55.8 | buckets. We got Tom Casale. We got Jeff Hockman. And we've got PropStars. Propi, how you |
| 1:01.2 | doing today, buddy? See ya. I'm doing great. I've returned after a very brief hiatus. I'm excited to be |
| 1:07.4 | back in the NBA Prop Streets. And with NFL season, unfortunately over, I get to shifts my focus singularly to the NBA, |
| 1:17.8 | which I'm very excited about. |
| 1:19.4 | Jeff Hockman, I know we have NHL coming back very soon, but today, tease us a little bit. |
| 1:24.4 | You're locked in on college basketball? |
| 1:26.5 | Yeah, I got a college basketball. What a Sunday we had in the Discord with Beachbun, winning his six-figure DFS. |
| 1:34.3 | I had a huge day starting with USA and hockey. I won money before 8 a.m. locally here, my time. |
| 1:41.5 | Had Wisconsin in the afternoon in college basketball, and then we had two |
| 1:45.2 | horse racing winners. So I was off yesterday, back at it today. |
| 1:49.7 | Daniel Hernandez says, good morning fan. Yeah, Discord's really fun, not just to get the like |
| 1:54.2 | the knowledge that you and guys like Tom Casale and prop stars and so many others drop in there, |
| 1:59.4 | but it's also to celebrate wins. And certainly |
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