DraftKings Promo Code to Use for NBA Parlay Picks on Monday

The knockout round of the NBA’s inaugural In-Season Tournament tips off tonight with a pair of games featuring the Celtics and Pacers and the Kings and Pelicans. The Pacers are the league’s most potent offense and host the Celtics who are the top seed in the Eastern Conference in the early game, while the Pelicans look to make it three-straight wins over the Kings this season.

To celebrate the start of the knockout round, DraftKings Sportsbook is giving you the chance to knock out a big-time payout of your own with a stepped-up parlay boost up to 100% to use on either or both of these games tonight.

If you’re not familiar with Stepped-Up boosts, the concept is simple: starting with 4 qualifying legs, you’ll get a 25% same game parlay boost added to your bet. From there, each additional leg you add increases your boost in increments, up to a 100% boost for 10 legs. That’s up to double your odds!

That’s not all, as new users who are looking to opt-in to this promo can also secure $150 in bonus bets from DraftKings after wagering their first $5. All you need to do is sign up with DraftKings here or via the offer below, bet $5 and collect your bonus bets. 

This boost is exclusive to DraftKings, so as Dimers has previously reported via our Best Sportsbooks section, having multiple books is crucial to building long-term profit.

Building Your Stepped-Up Parlay

There are a few stipulations: each leg must be -500 or longer, so you can’t pile up a bunch of -1000 lines, and you have to both opt-in to the promo and remember to apply the boost to your betslip before wagering.

Standard Lines Method

As far as strategy is concerned, you can attack it in a few ways. One way is to go for some standard lines, decide what boost level is comfortable for you and stick to that. You’ll get the largest odds for the fewest legs this way, though your risk level is a little higher.

For this method, we’d recommend using a combination of our best NBA player props and our NBA predictions, which features projected box scores for each game. You don’t even have to stick to props, you can always mix in some moneylines, spreads and totals by checking out our best NBA bets, too.

Hit up our NBA props page for our model’s full list of the best edges, or have a peek at the snapshot below:

Alternate Lines Method

Another way to play it is to use a bunch of alternate lines to reach 10 legs and the 100% boost. This is a popular method especially on social media as it feels “safer” to add a bunch of theoretically easier legs, although no matter what the line is, each leg you add inherently increases the risk, even if they’re alternate and seemingly more attainable lines.

If you go with this method, we’d recommend using each of our projected box scores on our NBA Predictions page. From there, you’ll see the projected Points, Rebounds and Assists line for each team’s starting five. Using those projections, take the alternate lines that match up.

For example, using the Celtics vs. Pacers projected boxscore, we see Jayson Tatum projected for 9 rebounds and Jaylen Brown projected for 23 points. Rather than take the over/under on their standard lines, you can take alternate lines of Jayson Tatum 8+ Rebounds and Jaylen Brown Under 26.5 points.

There’s no wrong way to attack this promo as you’re just looking for a fun longshot ticket to try and cash a big one while the NBA rings in its first-ever knockout round. We encourage you to take full advantage of our variety of tools to find your perfect parlay. 

I used a combination of our projections, best props and a little research of my own to play this parlay below, which will return $570 off my $10 wager, a 100% boost from the original $280 payout from the pre-boosted parlay. If you’re tailing, I hope we cash together. If not, best of luck in your parlay building!

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