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KU’s Peterson under fire for protecting future NBA cash
Peterson runs KU.
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BRISTOL — It’s all about the Benjamins💸, baby! On Thursday’s edition of ESPN’s “First Take,” host Stephen A. Smith lambasted Darryn Peterson of the Kansas Jayhawks for bringing load management to college basketball. After swishing a 3-pointer early in the second half of KU’s 81-69 victory over Oklahoma State on Wednesday, Peterson turned to head coach Bill Self and communicated something to the effect of, “Take me out, bitch!” He ended up playing a measly 18 minutes out of 40, which is close to his average. Peterson, projected to be the No. 1 pick in the impending NBA Draft, has also missed a lot of games. Coach Self called Peterson’s lack of availability “disappointing.” Jason Whitlock, host of “Fearless,” believes Peterson hates basketball. Dan Le Batard echoed a homogeneous sentiment. The 19-year-old superstar is gettin’ excoriated from every angle. “Let me say this: There is no team in hell that should grab Darryn Peterson number one,” Stephen A. said.
“You cannot do it. The first ability is availability. You pull yourself out? And it ain’t the first time he’s done it. Cramps? Flu? What? I can’t believe what I’m seeing from this guy.”
“This is business,” Stephen A. continued.
“I can’t trust him. I cannot.”
Stephen A. is right. This is business. Sports are no longer about fans and competition. Everything’s corporate now. It’s about gambling, scripted entertainment and gettin’ the bag💰. That’s why we shouldn’t take offense to Peterson’s stratagem. He’s already the nation’s top prospect and shoe deals and other endorsements await. Then, there’s salary. KU paid Peterson $3 million in NIL.
If the kid stays healthy, he’ll get $60 million guaranteed from the NBA.
That means Peterson has nothing to gain and everything to lose by playing a lot of minutes and risking injury.
JT Toppin of Texas Tech and Richie Saunders of BYU both suffered torn ACLs that put their NBA futures in doubt.
Peterson is trying to elude a homogeneous kismet.
His stance means the clueless black athlete is no longer clueless.
It’s sort of a revolution.
Peterson gave Coach Self an order and he obeyed.
Yep, brothas have flipped the script.
Now they’re barking commands at old white men and they’re getting away with it.
That’s because negro athletes are cash cows, not their coaches.
Fans pay high-ass ticket prices to watch black men catch a football🏈 or dribble a basketball🏀 .
They’re not expending mazuma to descry grandpa roaming the sideline.
The clueless black athlete finally knows his worth, and he’s worth billions.
Now they need to figure out a way to secure proprietorship.
In case you didn’t know, college football, college basketball, the NBA and NFL are billion dollar corporations where the marketable commodity is more than 70 percent negro (making blacks the majority and whites the minority).
Yet, negroes have zero ownership.
It’s stupid and inexcusable.
ESPN’s Dick Vitale disseminated a tweet, imploring Coach Self to jettison Peterson.
“Sometimes a divorce is good for everyone involved & I firmly believe that needs to happen,” Vitale wrote.
“The Darryn Peterson soap opera needs to end. It has to be a nightmare for ALL involved- so sad as Darryn’s talent is off the charts.”
Do you have a problem with Peterson’s load management?
Is it time to abolish the one-and-done rule?
Watch Stephen A., Whitlock and Le Batard give their two cents.
Share your thoughts.
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He’s protecting his NBA stock. No injuries.
He got $60 mil coming from the NBA? Shit I wouldnt risk injury either.
Peterson may have Kobe Bryant’s physical skills, but he’s mentally nowhere close. Kobe played through injuries, including broken fingers and knee.
He is doing it to save himself for the NBA!!! I live in Kansas, we all know this lol
Sounds like Bill Self needs to man up and take his ship back. Darren wouldn’t be allowed on my bench again until he apologized to the team.
Start letting these kids go to the NBA out of high school… especially since players can go back to college after getting drafted
He’s not just load managing, he’s ducking the best teams and players. It’s the craziest thing I’ve ever seen. It’s awful.
nba needs to send a message to these young kids that load management will be punished
This is the new era of the new athlete. 🚀🌟✨
These white coaches wouldnt be shit without these black players.
Bill Self aint stupid.
As a Kansas fan, I can’t believe he is the guy we got instead of all the other one and done players who are not load managing.
He was 1 stat away from prize picks over 😂 take betting out of sports
The dude sat out against the number 1 team in Arizona I believe to show that they can’t win a big game without him and they ended up winning anyway. Whoever is talking in his ears should be fired.
“CRAMPS… FLU…”
protecting the body means protecting the cash
He is saving himself for nba easy for Steven A Smith to say when he got his contract.
He cashing in on his own Prop bets! 💰 Investigation coming soon!
NIL is going to ruin college sports sad so sad
Peterson told Self: “Take me out bitch!” 😜🤪😁
Mfs saying he’s protecting his body watch him get drafted and do the same load management shit in the NBA smh
He’s doing it right. I promise you, if it doesn’t work out, Kansas and whatever NBA team that drafts him will be on to the next. Look out for your best interest because they are looking out for theirs.
That nigga point shaving 😂😂😂
Jason never fails to make things racial🙄. Please get this man his white woman or white man to take home. Jason leaves out the many white qb’s who have used NIL to do similar things. It’s not just the blacks Jason. Anything a non white person does was learned from whites.
I dont blame him. The one and done rule is stupid.
He’s just doing what every player does in the NBA now
If Bill Self has any self respect or balls he would bench this guy for the rest of the season
@Richard Hawkins: He owns Bill Self
Why would he hurt his draft stock over an injury in college? Another braindead SAS take. Dude needs to stick to solitaire.
He and his entourage have made a total mockery of college basketball, KU, Bill Self, and college basketball fans everywhere. He should be kicked out and sued for recovery of his NIL deal in proportion to his minutes played. That might save the sport from the next buffoon who might do the same. This was a PSA …
@ronman: College basketball was already a joke before Peterson
Once you develop habits…hard to break.
He’s already looking at basketball as purely business. A young player without a passion for the game is alarming.
whitey losing his power……… about fuckin time… love it!
Player empowerment has completely destroyed basketball, both college and professional…. Football is now going down this same path…..
Just think if this kid played for Bobby Knight lol
Darius Acuff played all 50 minutes of a double overtime game the same night on a bad ankle.
We have 0 reason to not suspect Peterson’s quitting decisions aren’t guided by gambling factors.
They do it in the NBA. Why don’t people understand that younger players copy the guys in the NBA? So the trickle down effect was inevitable.
He shouldn’t even be in college anyway! There should be a special bypass rule for elite HS players that meet certain requirements during their amateur career that allows them the opportunity to go to the NBA from the high school ranks if they don’t want to just drop the age requirement altogether IMO.
Point shaving
Someone won big on the under bet
One of his teammates should have slapped him by now
The NBA 🏀 needs to go back to letting players come to the league out of high school.
NIL & transfer portal need to be fixed. Get rid of the NBA & NFL draft for good.
Inmates running the asylum 😂😮 🏀 ROCK CHALK JAYHAWKS HA HA😂
Yah, but at least he holds 47% of their NIL budget, for playing a B- half a year
Bill Self is a coward. He is terrible coach of garbage school. It took Dan Hurley two years to do more than Self could possibly do in his pathetic 50 year career. Self and Peterson are just trash. And what’s funny, people think he should be up for coach of the year. Really? What a bunch of clowns. What makes Self a good coach? Two championships in 30 years? Wow. That is what UConn calls someone worse than Kevin Ollie by miles. As a UConn alum, if UConn won 2 championships over the past 30 years it would be a disaster. They would shut down the program if UConn only won 2 championships in the past 30 years. There would be riots. But I guess there are only two blue bloods, UConn and Duke.
Look at all the idiots in the comments.
This is another gambling issue. That is the reason Peterson is sitting out games after playing great.
College basketball only ruins NBA careers. That obligatory year before draft is ridiculous, why would anyone risk to be injured on the court by some moron who will never play in the NBA.
Bro I’m sure Peterson don’t give a fuck lmao he a millionaire regardless and going lottery 😂😂