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Kansas prima Darryn Peterson is group to apt beryllium a top-five prime successful this summer's NBA Draft, but location was a clip a fewer months agone he did not deliberation that time would come.
Peterson missed 11 games this play and had his clip trim short successful respective others owed to a bid of cramping issues, but nan worst 1 came earlier nan play moreover started.
Peterson told ESPN precocious that successful September, he was taken to a infirmary from a believe pinch terrible cramping passim his full body.
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Kansas Jayhawks defender Darryn Peterson controls nan shot against St. John's Red Storm defender Oziyah Sellers successful nan 2nd half of a second-round men's NCAA Tournament crippled astatine Viejas Arena successful San Diego, California, connected March 22, 2026. (Kirby Lee/Imagn Images)
"I made it to nan training room and conscionable started begging them to telephone 911. They were trying to get a vein to get maine nan IV, get maine backmost hydrated. But I was cramping truthful difficult they couldn't get a vein," Peterson said.
"I thought I was going to dice connected nan training array that day."
After months of searching for answers, Peterson said that precocious doses of creatine resulted successful nan cramping.
Creatine, utilized to summation musculus size, is possibly nan astir studied supplement connected nan marketplace and has galore benefits. But for Peterson, it prompted a scary situation.
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"I'd ne'er taken it earlier [going to college]. But aft nan play I took 2 weeks disconnected and they did tests which showed my baseline level was already high. So, they said erstwhile I dosed, it must've made nan levels unsafe," he said.
Kansas Jayhawks defender Darryn Peterson drives pinch nan shot against Iowa State Cyclones guardant Dominykas Pleta during nan 2nd half of nan Big 12 hoops crippled connected Feb. 14, 2026, astatine Hilton Coliseum successful Ames, Iowa. (Nirmalendu Majumdar/Ames Tribune / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)
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"It benignant of put maine successful a tizzy because I didn't cognize what was causing it. Nothing has ever been incorrect pinch maine before. Basketball is my life. What I emotion to do. But thing was going connected and I couldn't fig it out."
Peterson nary longer takes creatine and has not had immoderate issues since. He moreover played astatine slightest 30 minutes successful 8 of Kansas' past 9 games this past season.
Peterson's deficiency of play, of course, drew criticism, but he did each he could to play.
"They saw I was successful rehab each time earlier practice, aft practice. Get massages. Trying each types of stuff. Carb loading because they thought I didn't person glucose aliases something. Electrolytes. Liquid IV, LMNT. I changed my diet. I meal-prepped. Everything I could deliberation of," he said.
Kansas Jayhawks defender Darryn Peterson jogs backmost aft making a three-pointer against Houston Cougars wrong Allen Fieldhouse connected Monday, Feb. 23, 2026. (Evert Nelson/The Capital-Journal / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)
Head coach Bill Self moreover decided that playing off-ball would support him from overexerting himself, which could perchance lead to much cramping.
Peterson averaged 20.2 points per crippled and is wide expected to beryllium 1 of nan first names disconnected nan board adjacent month.
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