How KU’s Darryn Peterson played against No. 5 pick Keaton Wagler in summer league
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- Darryn Peterson and Keaton Wagler each scored 23 points in the Las Vegas summer league.
- Keaton Wagler scored 18 points in the third quarter to help the Clippers win 104-82.
- Peterson recorded a poster dunk, two steals, two rebounds and two blocks in the game.
Darryn Peterson, the No. 2 player selected in the 2026 NBA Draft, and No. 5 overall pick Keaton Wagler each scored 23 points in Sunday’s NBA Las Vegas Summer League game between the Utah Jazz and Los Angeles Clippers.
Wagler, a 6-foot-6, 175-pound, 19-year-old graduate of Shawnee Mission Northwest, played a one-and-done college season at Illinois. He erupted for 18 points in the third quarter in pacing the Clippers to a 104-82 victory.
Wagler hit 6 of 16 shots while starting and playing 28 minutes. He was 4-of-7 from 3 with four assists to three turnovers.
Peterson, a 6-6, 205-pound, 19-year-old Canton, Ohio native, hit 6 of 18 shots. He was 1-of-3 from 3 with five assists to two turnovers while starting and playing 26 minutes. He also had two steals, two rebounds and two blocks.
In his Vegas debut on Thursday, Peterson scored 24 points with three assists to eight turnovers in a 92-88 loss to overall No. 1 pick AJ Dybantsa’s Washington Wizards. Dybantsa had 27 points and seven boards. Peterson committed nine fouls against Washington (players are allowed 10 fouls in summer league contests), cutting the total to four fouls against the Clippers.
Wagler was whistled for seven fouls Sunday.
Peterson had a poster slam dunk versus the Clippers. He headed right after working a screen up top and drove toward the goal. Wagler hit the ball with one hand. Peterson recovered and gathered with two hands, then went back to his right hand and flushed a forceful one-handed dunk over Baba Miller to give Utah an early 6-2 lead.
Peterson in one sequence hit a 3 to give Utah a 33-26 lead then stripped Wagler of the basketball at halfcourt, drove to the goal and was fouled by Wagler. He hit the free throw then shortly after hit a layup while getting fouled by Cam Christie.
Former Missouri and KC Piper High School guard Tamar Bates scored five points on 2-of-2 shooting (1-1 from 3) with five rebounds in 17 minutes for the Jazz.
In other summer league action, former Kansas guard Melvin Council Jr. played 20 or more minutes for the second day in a row for a victorious New Orleans Pelicans team in the Las Vegas summer league.
Council scored nine points on 3-of-8 shooting (1-of-2 from 3) with four assists, two steals and one blocked shot in the Pelicans’ 81-75 victory over the Phoenix Suns on Sunday. Council, a 6-foot-4, 180-pound guard, also had three turnovers in 25 minutes.
Former KU center Hunter Dickinson, who has been attempting to show off his outside shooting at summer league, scored seven points versus Phoenix on 3-of-9 shooting while starting and playing 27 minutes. He was just 1-of-5 from 3 after going 3-of-6 from beyond the arc and scoring 21 points on Saturday.
Former Kansas State guard Markquis Nowell of the Pelicans started for the second straight day. In 19 minutes he scored eight points on 3-of-6 shooting (2-of-4 from 3) with four steals, three rebounds and three assists against just one turnover.
Also, former Iowa guard Bennett Stirtz, a graduate of Liberty High School, scored 13 points on 5-of-10 shooting (1-of-4 from 3) while playing 26 minutes in Oklahoma City’s 104-79 loss to Golden State. Former KU forward KJ Adams did not play for the Warriors.
