Live Bet Saturday | July 25, 2026 | Hour 8

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**Scott Seidenberg** (1:00)
This is Live Bet Saturday on VSiN, the Sports Betting Network.
Live Bet Saturday continues here on VSiN. I'm Scott Seidenberg on the Sports Betting Network. Things getting interesting at Citi Field as the Mets played a couple of runs and now head to the bottom of the ninth, down just one run against the Dodgers. Four-three LA leads, bottom of the ninth there at Citi Field. That is the lone game in progress right now as everything else has gone final, including our Orioles with a walk-off win over the Braves. So cash that ticket. Brewers 8-5 over the Rockies. So despite Colorado coming back a little bit, Brewers still cover the run line in that one. White Sox do play to run in the bottom of the ninth, but they still lose four to one to the Astros. So we'll see if the Mets here in the bottom of the ninth can get something exciting going and give us something to look at. Brock Stewart is on the bump for the Dodgers, looking to get the save here in Queens. We talked earlier in the show, we did some NFL talk as well, but we also talked about LeBron James and his decision to join the Philadelphia 76ers and the effect that it has had on the landscape of the NBA. Well, joining us right now on the Progressive Guest Line is an NBA and NFL analyst for betterday.com. He is MacKenzie Rivers. Mac, welcome back to the show here. It's Live Bet Saturday on VSiN, and you and I haven't had the chance to talk since LeBron made his decision yesterday. So what was your reaction? I know there was speculation, of course, about Miami, about Cleveland. When you find out that LeBron James is going to Philadelphia, what was your first reaction?

**MacKenzie Rivers** (2:37)
I should have known because I was looking at Calciods, and it just didn't make sense that Cleveland had been a 60% favorite and then faded, and Miami had the social media post, and then they were like a 60% to 50% favorite, and I'm like, it's going to be one of these teams. This is the first time I think the market really doesn't know. I think these Calciods are based on nothing or whichever odds, offshore odds that you're considering. They were really just purely speculation, and not that I should have known it was Philly, but I should have known it was a lot more wide open because there were really no tea leaves to go off of, and Philly makes as much basketball sense as any. They need another forward, a power forward.
I was very curious to see if they were favorites in the East. They did turn favorites. I slightly disagree with that. I don't think it's the best basketball fit, and I'm really excited to see Kendrick Perkins, for example, said that over the summer that LeBron was a top 10 player at one point, and Dalyan Brown was a top 10 player at one point. Well, they added two top 10 players, so they better be pretty good, but I kind of doubt that speculation.

**Scott Seidenberg** (3:42)
So talk to me about the basketball aspect of this. Like, how do you think it fits? I mean, from my perspective, I think it takes a lot of pressure off of Joel Embiid because he doesn't need to be healthy for an entire season now, right? There's not pressure on him to play all these games, because you can survive with Jalen Brown and LeBron James, and Embiid can kind of make sure that he's 100% for a playoff run. And I think it also takes pressure off of Jalen Brown, because he doesn't have to be the guy anymore like he was in Boston last year. But what do you think about the basketball fit here for LeBron in Philly?