VSiN PrimeTime | July 27, 2026 | Hour 2

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This is VSiN PrimeTime, live from the Circus Sports Book in downtown Las Vegas on VSiN, the Sports Betting Network.

**Femi Abebefe** (1:14)
It is our number two of VSiN PrimeTime here on VSiN, the Sports Betting Network, Femi Abebefe, Will Hill, hanging with you guys on this Monday night. As always, vsin.com/watch. The VSiN Watch app is where you can see us, and you can listen to us live on SiriusXM channel 158 We're sweating out all the major league baseball, our VSiN PrimeTime game of the night, about to get underway on the south side of Chicago. Both Will and I are together. It's a show bet. We like the first five under between the Yankees and the White Sox. Under four and a half had to pay minus 115 on the juice. So hopefully the pitchers Noah Schultz and Max Fried show up and show out, at least in the early going on the south side. But we'll keep you posted on all the other scores happening around Major League Baseball as we progress throughout this eight o'clock Eastern hour. But joining us to kick off this hour, he is the DraftKings Sportsbook Director, our good friend here at the network, Johnny Avello, joining us via the progressive guest line. Johnny, always a pleasure seeing you. Good catching up per usual.
How was the weekend for DraftKings? Obviously, yesterday, Jackson Coyvan won the 3M Open. We saw the DraftKings Twitter account tweeting that's won better, put $108,000 bet on Coyvan at 37-1 to win just over $4 million.
That's a massive, massive bet there. What was that like watching that over the weekend and seeing that one get home?

**Johnny Avello** (2:38)
Yeah, and it happens. I mean, you catch these guys way after the tournament starts, and you can see that things might be looking up for them, at least to play well through the weekend, and then they get away with a win. So yeah, nice bet, nice payoff. But you asked me how the weekend went. It's boring, Femi. That's what it is. It's boring. We come off of the March Madness tournament, then the playoffs, and then the World Cup, which was amazing. And now we've got this lull here of baseball, a little bit of golf, other sports going, of course. But it's kind of a downer right now.
We're off our high and just waiting for the next major event to take place, which will revive us again and have just a weekend from weekend major business. So that's what we're looking forward to now at this point.

**Will Hill** (3:37)
Johnny, what was it like from the books perspective, monitoring LeBron? I figure, all right, if he goes to Cleveland, we'll move the number from this to this. If he moves to Miami, we'll move the number from this to this. Philly was not really expected.
Overadjusting, expecting enthusiasm on whatever LeBron signs. Take us through that process, the mechanics of LeBron signing and what the new number moved from on Friday morning.

**Johnny Avello** (4:01)
We did all that, Will.
We had Golden State the favorite. Money was coming in on Golden State.
Then Miami was the favorite. And then the Cavs were the favorite. Actually, the Cavs were the favorite. Then Miami was the favorite. And then Miami was a bigger favorite at minus $2.
You know, and when I looked at the top six teams where he might go, Philadelphia did look attractive to me. He's already been with the Cavs. They don't have all the pieces. They have Harden, who's, you know, getting older and does he really want to play with that, you know, type of one and two guys on top. Then there was Miami, who he's been there already, and they didn't have all the sufficient pieces, but Philly did. And, you know, I think it was a good choice on his part. What I was shocked at was the, we should have put a prop up on how much money he was going to make, because I think people would have went way over the money that he got. But, you know, I think he's in a comfortable place now. He's going to end his career here, and I think he's got a chance to get another title, at least one in the next two years. But as far as, you know, us putting up his next team, we were all over the place and really had to keep a close eye on it. And eventually the money was spread out pretty well throughout that book.