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Kansas star Darryn Peterson is set to likely be a top-five pick in this summer’s NBA Draft<\/a>, but there was a time a few months ago he did not think that day would come.<\/p>\n

Peterson missed 11 games<\/a> this season and had his time cut short in several others due to a series of cramping issues, but the worst one came before the season even started.<\/p>\n

Peterson told ESPN recently that in September, he was taken to a hospital from a practice with severe cramping throughout his entire body.<\/p>\n

“I made it to the training room and just started begging them to call 911. They were trying to get a vein to get me the IV, get me back hydrated. But I was cramping so hard they couldn’t get a vein,” Peterson said.<\/p>\n

“I thought I was going to die on the training table that day.”<\/p>\n

After months of searching for answers, Peterson said that high doses of creatine resulted in the cramping.<\/p>\n

Creatine, used to increase muscle size, is perhaps the most studied supplement on the market and has numerous benefits. But for Peterson, it prompted a scary situation.<\/p>\n

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“I’d never taken it before [going to college]. But after the season I took two weeks off and they did tests which showed my baseline level was already high. So, they said when I dosed, it must’ve made the levels unsafe,” he said.<\/p>\n

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“It kind of put me in a tizzy because I didn’t know what was causing it. Nothing has ever been wrong with me before. Basketball is my life. What I love to do. But something was going on and I couldn’t figure it out.”<\/p>\n

Peterson no longer takes creatine and has not had any issues since. He even played at least 30 minutes in eight of Kansas’ last nine games this past season.<\/p>\n

Peterson’s lack of play, of course, drew criticism, but he did all he could to play.<\/p>\n

“They saw I was in rehab every day before practice, after practice. Get massages. Trying all types of stuff. Carb loading because they thought I didn’t have glucose or something. Electrolytes. Liquid IV, LMNT. I changed my diet. I meal-prepped. Everything I could think of,” he said.<\/p>\n

Head coach Bill Self even decided that playing off-ball would keep him from overexerting himself, which could potentially lead to more cramping.<\/p>\n

Peterson averaged 20.2 points per game and is widely expected to be one of the first names off the board<\/a> next month.<\/p>\n

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Source – https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/nba-draft-prospect-says-thought-going-die-cramping-caused-creatine <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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