Wednesday's BEST BETS: Spurs vs. Thunder Gm 2 + Golden Knights vs. Avs Gm 1 + MLB
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Join experts Sia Nejad, Mike McCLure, Buckets, Larry Hartstein, and Tom Casale as they dish out their picks for Spurs vs. Thunder, NHL, MLB, and MORE!
(0:00) Intro
(3:11) Worst Playoff Collapse Ever?
(5:34) Buckets' Europa League Final Bet
(9:01) Mike's French Open, NHL and Golf Picks
(13:21) Free Sportsline NBA, MLB Picks
(16:41) Larry's Spurs-Thunder Bet
(19:26) Sia's Golf Bet
(20:32) Tom's Golden Knights-Avs Prop
(22:15) Bonus Soccer Bet and Bucket's Dice Roll
(25:08) HR Chart Picks
(25:55) Bonus NHL, NBA, Soccer Bets
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the Early Edge, brought to you by BetMGM, make it legendary. |
| 0:13.8 | It's going to be a great and positive Wednesday. I got Larry Hartstein in the chat. |
| 0:18.1 | We'll see if he's on the show. A lot of you sports savant in the chat. He's already hit the gym and he's watching his favorite show, the early edge. Let's see how our recap screens did. We have two recap screens, one from the morning show, and one, of course, from the 530 show, which we are going to run back today for the NBA. Two and five on the morning show. Not so good. Amags hits his play larry goes one for two we miss everything |
| 0:39.1 | else but let's see the nba recap from the five 30 special prop show prop and sides show |
| 0:44.6 | adam thompson goes three and no again folks uh we go five and two there so two and five on one screen |
| 0:49.3 | five and two on the other uh may have lost you a little bit of juice today, but otherwise, not bad with the two shows |
| 0:55.4 | together. |
| 0:55.8 | But we got to improve on the morning show from 2 and 5. |
| 0:57.8 | Let's bring in the stars of the show. |
| 0:59.7 | As I see Mike McClure's in the chat, I wonder if he's on the show. |
| 1:02.8 | Oh, wait, there he is. |
| 1:04.0 | Mike McClure, we've got him, we got Larry Hartstein, we've got buckets, and we've got Tom |
| 1:07.7 | Cassali. And we've got Tom Casale. Larry, there's a lot of people in the chat that are just dumbfounded at how a team can blow a 22-point lead with eight minutes left. Your response? |
| 1:16.5 | Well, it's never happened before. And Kenny Atkinson should be looking for a new job this morning after leaving James Harden in to get repeatedly roasted and roasted by Jalen Brunson. Incredible comeback by |
| 1:29.5 | the Knicks. But this is a collapse that I think this series is over. I think this was the |
| 1:34.5 | Cavs chance. They played great basketball. The Knicks were rusty, had not played in nine days. |
| 1:39.4 | O.J. And Obie looked like the hamstring was bothering him. but as you saw it late in the game, |
| 1:44.2 | he looked like himself, he was forceful, he was confident, and now I think the calves are, |
| 1:49.4 | I think it's over, actually. Mike, this feels like an overreaction, fire the coach, |
| 1:54.1 | series is over, we're only one game in, your reaction? Look, I'll be honest with you. I, |
| 2:00.2 | I thought the cabs had that wrapped up in one. |
| 2:02.4 | Uh, I turned the game off, uh, you know, after the first minute of the fourth quarter. |
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