{"id":613218,"date":"2026-02-20T07:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T07:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/613218\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T07:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T07:29:08","slug":"kansas-star-darryn-peterson-is-getting-terrible-advice-amid-cramping-saga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/613218\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas Star Darryn Peterson Is ‘Getting Terrible Advice’ Amid Cramping Saga"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is happening with Kansas<\/a> star Darryn Peterson<\/a>, arguably the nation’s best college basketball<\/a> player?\u00a0<\/p>\n

How can a player so talented be so averse to showcasing those skills?\u00a0<\/p>\n

“He’s getting terrible advice,” Danny Parkins<\/a> said on “First Things First<\/a>.” “He’s making millions of dollars to play basketball. He has an agent who reps NBA<\/a> people at a big agency. The only reason why I think he’s getting bad counseling here is [because] he’s not explaining what’s going on. Why do you keep getting cramps? Is there a medical condition? Because what is happening now is, are you load managing? Are you load managing your college career?”<\/p>\n

Peterson has missed 11 of Kansas’ 26 games because of a hamstring injury, cramping and an illness. Furthermore, he has opted out in the middle of two more games, including the Jayhawks’ 81-69 win<\/a> against Oklahoma State<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In the second half of Wednesday’s game, Peterson hit a right-wing 3-pointer before turning to coach Bill Self to ask to be subbed out.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Self obliged, as he has all season, because the Jayhawks’ coach is seemingly just as confused as everyone else and has no control of the situation.<\/p>\n

“Hall of Fame coach Bill Self \u2014 he has a ton of credibility in that program, in that state in that sport,” Parkins said. “He’s a Hall of Famer, and he’s like, \u2018Oh I thought he was going back in.’ And he wasn’t.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“[Peterson] needs to [explain] because at some point, he’s going to need to explain this to the NBA.”<\/p>\n

Peterson’s likely to be a top-three pick in the upcoming 2026 NBA Draft<\/a>. He’s averaging 20.0 points per game in just 26.9 minutes per game. But, his inconsistency is playing time could concern scouts at the next level and disrupt the flow for Kansas.<\/p>\n

“He looks like Kobe,” Parkins added. “He looks like Dwayne Wade, but if he doesn’t love basketball, I need to know.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What is happening with Kansas star Darryn Peterson, arguably the nation’s best college basketball player?\u00a0 How can a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[7,81318,217,17641,79016,3730,231,772,1544],"class_list":{"0":"post-613218","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-cbk-kansas-jayhawks-vs-oklahoma-state-cowboys-02-18-2026","10":"tag-college-basketball","11":"tag-darryn-peterson","12":"tag-event_recap","13":"tag-kansas-jayhawks","14":"tag-ncaa","15":"tag-ncaa-basketball","16":"tag-ncaab"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116101785990292085","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}