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Alijah Arenas, son of the former NBA star, Gilbert Arenas, would be out of his coma induced some 24 hours after being involved in a serious car accident.
Arenas, 18, remained intubated, but the development of his recovery was “remarkable and full of hope,” said a representative of the Arenas family, according to TMZ Sports.
Arenas was traveling in his Tesla Cybertruck shortly before 5 a.m. Thursday in Los Angeles when the accident occurred, compared.
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Western goalkeeper All-American from McDonald’s Alijah Arenas Dribble Le Ballon in a match at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, NY, on April 1. (Pamela Smith-Imagn images)
The Arenas family shared a declaration by one of the people who helped him get out of the car after the wreckage.
“I remember heard that I hit the car window, but I saw nothing because the smoke was so thick,” said the person via TMZ Sports.
Alijah Arenas, son of the ex-star of the NBA Gilbert Arenas, in the induced coma after a serious vehicle accident: reports
Former NBA player Gilbert Arenas talks with his son Alijah Arenas during a boys’ basketball championship match IV from CIF at Golden 1 Center in Sacramento on March 9, 2024. (Keith Birmingham / Medianews Group / Pasadena Star-News via Getty Images)
“It was then that I realized that someone was inside. I tried to break the window, but it would not give. Then, I saw that one of the windows was cracked just enough, and we used everything we had to fold and remove it. The car was on fire. We just knew that we had to take it out.”
Arenas recently entered the USC’s male basketball team.
Alijah Arenas of the Chancellors of Chatsworth is preparing to draw a frank launch against the Jesuit marauders in the second half of a championship basketball match of the CIF II of boys 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 best -classified shooting guards in the 2026 class, and recently reclassified as a senior to allow him to obtain his secondary school diploma in 2025 and go to university a year earlier.
His father, Gilbert Arenas, played in the NBA for 12 seasons. He was three times All-Star and spent eight seasons with the Washington Wizards, two with the Golden State Warriors and a season each with the Orlando Magic and Memphis grizzles.
