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Cash That Ticket - Monday May 11th
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- Straight Outta Vegas AM
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- May 11, 2026
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Summary
Munaf Manji and Dave Essler talk betting for Monday. Monday night is a two-game NBA playoff card and Munaf Manji and Dave Essler on Cash That Ticket have every angle covered, starting with the most talked-about moment in the playoffs right now, Victor Wembanyama's first-career ejection from Sunday's Spurs-Timberwolves Game 4 in Minneapolis, where the 7-foot-4 San Antonio star caught Naz Reid with a flagrant-2 elbow to the throat area in the second quarter and was tossed from the game, with Minnesota rallying to win 114-109 and even the series two games apiece. Dave opens the episode in a great mood because his Minnesota team total over cashed, then both hosts dig into the debate: was Wembanyama out of line, was there provocation the cameras missed, and does playoff physicality change the calculus? Dave draws a sharp comparison to hockey, where the retaliator always takes the penalty even when the instigation started somewhere else, and Munaf adds context from Spurs coach Mitch Johnson's postgame presser, where Johnson pointed to the constant physical attention Wembanyama absorbs on every possession as context without excusing the play. The guys then pivot to the New York Knicks completing a stunning four-game sweep of the Philadelphia 76ers in the Eastern Conference Semifinals, a result neither host fully predicted, with Dave immediately raising the sharper question of what the sweep actually tells bettors, namely that New York will be significantly overvalued in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals, probably by two to two and a half points more than the number should reflect, and Munaf flagging the OG Anunoby hamstring situation as a genuine rest-and-recovery variable that could matter if the Cleveland-Detroit series goes six or seven games as he expects. On to Mon…