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VSiN By The Books | April 27, 2026 | Hour 3

VSiN Best Bets

VSiN

Baseball, Sports News, Football, News, Sports

4.4559 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2026

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In this hour of VSiN By The Books hosts Dave Ross and Jensen Lewis are joined by Zachary Cohen VSiN Senior Editor Hardwood handicappers podcast host, to help discuss the NBA Playoffs and how the first round will play out. ALso Will Hill joins the show to speak on the future of the NBA playoffs, NFL Draft and futures for the NFL.

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0:00.0

This is Bicent, the Sports Betting Network.

0:09.0

This is Veson by the books on Veson, the Sports Betting Network.

0:18.0

Top of the hour, it is V. Sim.

0:23.8

By the books, Dave Ross, right here at the mid-gaming hall, Franklin, Kentucky.

0:26.6

He is our closer.

0:27.7

Jensen Lewis back home in Cleveland, Ohio.

0:30.7

Lots to get to here in this big power hour.

0:32.9

We're going to have the Daily Diamond, of course, breakdown major league baseball, get to our best bets.

0:36.5

And the King of Connecticut, Will Hill will join the program as well. But right now, let's go out to the other desert. Zachary Cohen joins a program here on the progressive guest line. Give him a follow on X at betting on X. I think one of the best handles out there on X. Senior editor here at vason.com. And, Zach, this happens every year, right? We saw Jason Tatum go down in the postseason last year. We saw Tyresearch Halliburton go down.

1:33.3

Is it just a right of passage now in the NBA playoffs? We have injury after injury after injury. And now Minnesota, up three games to one, they lose Ante and they lose Dante. Could be for the rest of the playoffs. Yeah, it's absolutely terrible. I mean, it really does feel like the team that ends up winning is the team that stays the healthiest. I do think that, you know, we're seeing a few teams at full strength right now. I mean, fortunately, knock on wood, you still have O.K. Steve, pretty healthy. You still have San Antonio pretty healthy. But it is definitely concerning that, you know, we're seeing more of these injuries happen almost in the same exact way.

1:39.2

It's when they like plant and stop on a dime to go for a loose ball after not really going in that direction.

1:42.1

They change kind of the full weight of where they are in their bodies.

1:44.1

And it really feels like we've seen the same injury happen the exact same way five times now in the playoffs. And seeing people

1:49.9

that have a Jersey number of zero, feels like you are a marked man for Achilles injuries.

1:55.8

No conspiracy theory here. Just following the data points, that's it. Let me follow the data with you on my

2:01.7

Cavaliers. First two games, this look like just an absolute overwhelming matchup in favor of

2:08.5

Cleveland. Credit words do, Toronto gets back up off the bat in game three and then to meltdown

2:14.0

for the Cavaliers at the end of the fourth quarter yesterday. Okay, we're now in

2:18.8

moving day with game five. Reassess this series for us and where you stand on Cavs and Raptors.

2:25.3

Yeah, I'm still not really that worried about the Cavaliers winning the series. I do kind of wonder

2:29.5

if they're going to find a way to win in Toronto. Maybe that doesn't happen, but I do think that the

2:33.6

most likely

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