The five-star USC recruit was involved in a single-vehicle accident last week in Los Angeles Alijah Arenas is on the mend, less than a week after an early morning car accident. Arenas, a five-star basketball recruit and the son of former NBA star Gilbert Arenas,

Josiah Johnson, a friend and podcast co-host of Alijah Arenas’s father Gilbert, shared an update on the USC recruit's condition Tuesday morning.

On Thursday, April 24, 2025, Alijah Arenas got into a crash around 5:00 am in a Cybertruck. He crashed into a fire hydrant and a tree, and the vehicle was enflamed soon enough. TMZ Sports notes that police believe that speed was “the likely reason for the crash.”