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Darryn Peterson has become more and more the talk of the basketball world. Peterson, the Kansas freshman who turned 19, entered the basketball season as the presumptive No. 1 pick in the 2026 NBA draft. The 6’5 combo-guard is averaging an absurd 22 points on 50% from the field and a resounding 40% from the three-point line. Not only is he a ridiculous scorer, but he’s also averaging 4.5 rebounds and 2.5 assists, along with an insane 32.9 PER rating. Peterson was a top high school basketball prospect who attended several schools, including Cuyahoga Valley Christian Academy in Ohio, Huntington Prep in West Virginia, and finally Prolific Prep in Napa, California, where he finished his senior year, becoming the 2025 Naismith High School Player of the Year before committing to the University of Kansas. After coming in as the favorite to go number 1 in June’s draft, Peterson’s college career started shaky with a pulled hamstring, sidelining Peterson for nine of Kansas’ first 14 games of the season. Peterson returned to the lineup full-time on January 3rd and has played in every game since, scoring fewer than 20 just once since his return. His play, including most recently a 30-point night on 11-for-13 shooting against Baylor, has led the talk around Peterson in basketball communities and online circles to grow, and deservingly so. People online have made comparisons to Kevin Durant, Kobe Bryant, and even Michael Jordan. One Kansas fan said that he will be a fringe All-NBA player by year 4 in the league. Peterson is one of the best guard prospects basketball has ever seen, and there is simply no denying that. But there is a serious question about whether a player this young, who has played so little basketball, can meet the expectations being placed on him. This conversation must start with the obvious: YES, Darryn Peterson deserves hype, a lot of it. The reason is simply that it’s rare to see a guy at 18, now 19, with that kind of NBA body and the shot-making ability. He’s pretty comfortably 1.01 in this class if he’s not medically red-flagged. In a guards league, a guy who can step and average between 15 and 20 points a night provides a high floor for any prospect. Combine that with his insane defensive prowess, elite athleticism, and high IQ, and you have a can-not-miss prospect. But prospects as elite as this are still prospects, not guarantees. Peterson has shades of all the excellent guard prospects to come out, including Luka Doncic, Anthony Edwards, and Cade Cunningham. The best comparison for Peterson I have seen is John Wall, one of the most explosive players in college basketball history. The 6’4 combo-guard was also the clear number one pick from his shifty scoring and can’t miss athleticism, along with being described as “one of the best defensive point guards in the league when healthy” per HoopsHype from 2010. Wall also heavily relied on PNR actions, making his playmaking potential more intriguing to scouts. Peterson is also an elite on- and off-ball skilled scorer who has been a top defensive prospect at every level, and he became a standout PNR creator in his last year and a half of HS. Guys like Luka, Edwards, and even Cunningham were not coming into the draft with as high a defensive IQ or Motor as Wall did, and Peterson does. What sets Peterson apart is his elite and ridiculous shot-making. The closest pure scorer that comes close to Peterson out of college is Kyrie Irving. While Irving only played in 11 games in college and did not average the 22 that Peterson does, the tough shot-making is what got Irving taken at number one, despite the injury. Irving averaged 17.5 points in college on a similar 55% from the field, 40% from the 3-point line, just as Peterson is doing now. Irvings’ scoring also looks like Peterson’s, two players who get to their spots and can work on or off the ball in isolation or off screens, manipulating the…