DraftKings $200 Bonus: 3 Sunday Best Bets
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- DraftKings is offering new users $200 in bonus bets on a first $5 wager, and SportsLine's model has flagged three Sunday picks — Thunder -22.5 vs. Jazz, Tigers money line vs. Cardinals, and Mavericks +1.5 vs. Lakers — as the best plays to use the bonus.
- The Lakers are 1.5-point road favorites in Dallas at 7:30 p.m. ET despite missing Luka Doncic, Austin Reaves, and Marcus Smart, a combined 57 points per game, per SportsLine NBA expert Mike Tierney.
- Cooper Flagg is coming off a 51-point outburst for the Mavericks, giving Los Angeles' stripped-down rotation another defensive concern on top of its offensive void.
- Oklahoma City leads the Spurs by 2.5 games for the NBA's best record with five games left, has swept the season series with Utah by 30+ points twice, and is projected by the model to win Sunday by an average of 29 points (67% cover rate).
- The Utah Jazz have lost eight straight and are coming off a 34-point loss to Houston, with the piece explicitly noting the team is positioning itself for what it calls the deepest NBA draft class in years.
- The Tigers have won the first two games of their Cardinals series by four and five runs, though SportsLine MLB expert Matt Severance flagged Sunday's Keider Montero matchup as the least attractive of the set.
- Stacking the three picks into a single Sunday parlay at DraftKings pays +519, and the model enters Week 24 on a 46-20 run on top-rated NBA spread picks dating back to last season.
Why it matters: New DraftKings users can risk $5 to claim $200 in bonus bets, and the Lakers' 57-ppg injury void (Doncic, Reaves, Smart out) is the cited factor for backing Dallas catching 1.5 points at home. The Thunder-Jazz spread, where the model projects a 29-point OKC win and 67% cover rate, is the heaviest favorite in the three-pick parlay paying +519.
