Top NBA Parlay Picks for Monday: Murray Continues Ownership of Rockets

Isaiah Sirois

Last Updated: March 28, 2022 7:24 AM EDT • 3 min read. Twitter link Google News Link

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Our experts have pieced together an NBA parlay picks ticket with odds of +419 for Monday's stacked betting card, and we're riding with Dejounte Murray tonight.

After an exciting Sunday of consequential basketball, the NBA is back with another set of important games. The new No. 1 seed in the Eastern Conference, the Boston Celtics, are underdogs for their matchup with the Toronto Raptors. Elsewhere, the Memphis Grizzlies will look to build on their lead over the Golden State Warriors.

With so many eyes on the's biggest games, we'll pivot to some less attractive games for Monday's NBA parlay. I expect these lines to move substantially today, so get your money down as soon as possible!

Here are our top NBA parlay picks for Monday (odds via FanDuel Sportsbook; pick confidence based on a 1-to-5-star scale).

Monday's NBA Parlay Picks

Dejounte Murray Double-Double/San Antonio to Win (+104) ?????Nuggets -3 (-110) vs. Hornets ????Hawks ML (-300) vs. Pacers ????

NBA Parlay Predictions

Dejounte Murray Double-Double/San Antonio to Win (+104)

This is one of the safest plus-money bets that I have ever seen. Dejounte Murray has recorded 37 double-doubles this season. Three of those came against the Houston Rockets, and he even had a triple-double in their first meeting.

Murray feels so safe for a handful of reasons. First, the Rockets play at the NBA's second-fastest pace, which means Murray and the Spurs will get plenty of extra possessions. Next, the Spurs guard nearly averages a triple-double per game – he gets 20.8 points, 8.3 rebounds, and 9.3 assists on a nightly basis. We only need him to have an above-average performance in one category. Lastly, the Rockets have given up the seventh-most assists and the ninth-most rebounds per game to point guards through the last 15 games.

Of course, we also need the Spurs to win. Fortunately, they're the only team with anything to play for in this matchup. The Rockets are battling for last place in the association, but the Spurs are just a game behind the Los Angeles Lakers for the last play-in spot.

San Antonio is 6-4 through its last 10 and has won its last three games. The Rockets are on a two-game winning streak of their own, their second-longest of the year, but both wins came against the tanking Portland Trail Blazers. Look for San Antonio to put another tally in the win column tonight.

Nuggets -3 (-110)

The Charlotte Hornets just knocked off the Brooklyn Nets last night. The win earned them the No. 8 seed in the Eastern Conference, too. This creates what we in the industry call a prime letdown spot.

It helps that the Hornets have been terrible in back-to-backs this season. They are 1-12 straight up when playing without rest and 3-10 against the spread in those games. They'll face the Denver Nuggets in Charlotte here, and Nikola Jokic's squad is a respectable 22-16 on the road.

The Hornets come into this one relatively healthy, and the Nuggets may have to deal with the absences of a few reserve players like Facundo Campazzo and JaMychal Green. I'm not worried about their ability to cover, though - the Nuggets have won two of their last three games by at least this margin, and their only loss came to the Phoenix Suns.

The Nuggets will also come into this game with their backs against the wall. They find themselves just 1.5 games out of the play-in tournament, and the Minnesota Timberwolves look like they'll make it a race. As a result, I expect Denver to put its best foot forward and control tonight's winnable matchup.

Hawks ML (-330)

I'll wrap things up with a bet on the Atlanta Hawks. They'll face the Indiana Pacers and few teams have looked this bad as the season winds to a close. Indiana just took a 40-point loss to the Toronto Raptors on Saturday, and is 0-3 in its most recent games.

The Hawks have won three games against the Pacers this season. Indiana owns just one win against Atlanta since the 2020-21 season, too. With the Pacers out of the Eastern Conference race and the Hawks still very much in it, only Atlanta has a real incentive to win the game.

Indiana's injury report seals the deal here. Chris Duarte, Malcolm Brogdon, and Myles Turner are all out, and their reserve bigs are almost all questionable. The Pacers don't have any reason to try tonight, and they certainly don't have the personnel to succeed.

Combined Odds: Dejounte Murray Double-Double/San Antonio to Win (+104) + Nuggets -3 (-110) + Hawks ML (-330) = +407

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NBA parlay picks made 3/28/2022 at 10:35 a.m. ET

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Isaiah Sirois

Isaiah Sirois is a Sports Betting Analyst at Sportsbook Review specializing in basketball, motorsports, and football. He uses a wide variety of analytical tools to identify value on event-specific markets, and you can always find his columns stuffed to the brim with data. Basketball is Isaiah’s favorite sport to handicap, and he has covered NBA, WNBA, NCAA, Olympic, and FIBA markets for Sportsbook Review and other sites. However, Isaiah’s favorite sport to follow is auto racing, and you can usually find him watching NASCAR or IndyCar most weekends. He will be a fan of Team Penske and Ford Performance until the end of time. Isaiah graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Emory University and is currently attending Vanderbilt Law School.