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Alijah Arenas, son of former NBA star Gilbert Arenas, is reportedly out of his induced coma some 24 hours after being involved in a serious car accident.
Arenas, 18, remained intubated, but the development in his recovery has been “remarkable and hopeful,” an Arenas family rep said, according to TMZ Sports.
Arenas was traveling in his Tesla Cybertruck shortly before 5 a.m. on Thursday in Los Angeles when the crash occurred, per reports.
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McDonald’s All-American West guard Alijah Arenas dribbles the ball during a game at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., on April 1. (Pamela Smith-Imagn Images)
Arenas’ family shared a statement from one of the people who helped him out of the car after the wreck.
“I remember hearing banging on the car window, but I couldn’t see anything because the smoke was so thick,” the person said via TMZ Sports.
Former NBA player Gilbert Arenas talks with his son Alijah Arenas during a CIF State Division IV boys’ basketball championship game at the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento on March 9, 2024. (Keith Birmingham/MediaNews Group/Pasadena Star-News via Getty Images)
“That’s when I realized someone was inside. I tried to break the window, but it wouldn’t give. Then I saw one of the windows was cracked just enough, and we used everything we had to bend it and pull him out. The car was on fire. We just knew we had to get him out.”
Arenas recently committed to the USC Trojans’ men’s basketball team.
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Alijah Arenas of the Chatsworth Chancellors prepares to shoot a free-throw against the Jesuit Marauders in the second half of a boys’ CIF State Division II championship basketball game at the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento on March 15. (Keith Birmingham/MediaNews Group/Pasadena Star-News via Getty Images)
Arenas was one of the top-ranked shooting guards in the class of 2026, and recently reclassified as a senior to allow him to graduate high school in 2025 and go to college a year earlier.
His father, Gilbert Arenas, played in the NBA for 12 seasons. He was a three-time All-Star and spent eight seasons with the Washington Wizards, two with the Golden State Warriors and one season each with the Orlando Magic and Memphis Grizzlies.
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