NBA Draft prospect says he thought he was going to die from cramping caused by creatine

Kansas prima Darryn Peterson is acceptable to apt beryllium a top-five prime successful this summer's NBA Draft, but determination was a clip a fewer months agone helium did not deliberation that time would come.

Peterson missed 11 games this play and had his clip chopped abbreviated successful respective others owed to a bid of cramping issues, but the worst 1 came earlier the play adjacent started.

Peterson told ESPN precocious that successful September, helium was taken to a infirmary from a signifier with terrible cramping passim his full body.

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Kansas Jayhawks defender Darryn Peterson controls the shot against St. John's Red Storm defender Oziyah Sellers successful the 2nd fractional 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 the grooming country and conscionable started begging them to telephone 911. They were trying to get a vein to get maine the IV, get maine backmost hydrated. But I was cramping truthful hard they couldn't get a vein," Peterson said.

"I thought I was going to dice connected the grooming array that day."

After months of searching for answers, Peterson said that precocious doses of creatine resulted successful the cramping.

Creatine, utilized to summation musculus size, is possibly the astir studied supplement connected the 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 the 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 the levels unsafe," helium said.

Kansas Jayhawks defender Darryn Peterson drives with the shot against Iowa State Cyclones guardant Dominykas Pleta during the 2nd fractional of the 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 enactment maine successful a tizzy due to the fact that I didn't cognize what was causing it. Nothing has ever been incorrect with 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 adjacent 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 helium did each helium could to play.

"They saw I was successful rehab each time earlier practice, aft practice. Get massages. Trying each types of stuff. Carb loading due to the fact that they thought I didn't person glucose oregon something. Electrolytes. Liquid IV, LMNT. I changed my diet. I meal-prepped. Everything I could deliberation of," helium 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 manager Bill Self adjacent decided that playing off-ball would support him from overexerting himself, which could perchance pb to much cramping.

Peterson averaged 20.2 points per crippled and is wide expected to beryllium 1 of the archetypal names disconnected the committee adjacent month.

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