Wednesday's BEST BETS: NBA Props + Champions League Picks + UFC 325
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Wednesday's BEST BETS with Sia Nejad, Buckets, Martin Green, Mike Barner, and Danny Brasco as they hand out their plays for Champions League, NBA, Super Bowl, UFC 325, and MORE!
(0:00) Intro
(5:30) Buckets' Champions League Bets
(9:37) Mikey B's NBA Props and Picks
(12:20) Martin and Buckets' Champions League Picks
(16:50) Danny's UFC 325 Picks
(21:04) Martin's Champions League Bets
(23:43) Sia's Farmers Insurance Pick
(25:23) Bonus Bets (NBA, UCL)
(31:42) Ben's "Grocery Spot" NBA Bets
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, everyone, welcome to the Early Edge. |
| 0:12.2 | We are brought to you by BetMGM, Make It Legendary. |
| 0:14.5 | My name is Cianajad, otherwise known as the counselor of Cash, |
| 0:17.4 | and I'll be coming to you from the studio over the next few days a lot of |
| 0:21.6 | content you're coming make sure you're subscribed to the sports line youtube channel let's see how |
| 0:25.7 | we did on the recap screen before we bring in the stars of the show we've had a lot of winning days |
| 0:30.7 | lately this is not one of them though tom casselli hits his bet sports line picks do not come |
| 0:35.6 | through mike mcclure comes through with his tennis |
| 0:37.6 | parlay. EC one for two. We go three and five overall. Not a terrible day, but certainly not a winning day whatsoever. So I'll tell you what, let's bring in the stars of the show and turn that around and have a winning day. We've already won, ladies and gentlemen, right here on the early edge, because Look, Buckets is back. |
| 0:54.6 | We've got buckets. |
| 0:55.4 | We've got Martin Green. |
| 0:56.7 | We've got Mike Barnard, of course. already won, ladies and gentlemen, right here on the early edge, because look, Buckets is back. |
| 0:54.6 | We've got buckets. |
| 0:55.4 | We've got Martin Green. |
| 0:56.7 | We've got Mike Barnard. |
| 0:57.9 | Of course, we got Brasco for another big time UFC event on Paramount Plus. |
| 1:03.3 | Buckets, you're back? |
| 1:04.5 | How you doing? |
| 1:05.2 | How was it? |
| 1:05.6 | How was the vacay? |
| 1:06.7 | I'm back. |
| 1:07.8 | I'm home a week early. |
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