The old All-Star Gilbert Arenas de la NBA provided some key details on The car accident that won his son, five-star basketball recruits Alijah Arenas, in a medical induction coma last week.
Appearing on “The Dan Patrick Show”, Gilbert confirmed that Alijah “does very well” without major injuries, almost two weeks after losing control of his Tesla Cybertruck, struck a fire mouth and slammed in a tree. Alijah is Classified by its rivals such as global recruit n ° 4 in the 2026 class And is currently attached to the USC.
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When he was asked to describe his immediate reaction to learning the accident early in the morning, Gilbert said he was initially confused due to a dysfunction of the Tesla application:
“Usually, I wake up at 4.30 p.m. and I go through the Tesla app to see if he returns home or to the gymnasium. His car is at the gymnasium, so I continue my training and my daughter said:” What are you doing? “I said,” I train. “She said,” You didn't hear? “At the gymnasium?” No, he's in the hospital.
“I just stopped everything and ran there and I said to myself:” What's going on? Was it his car? What's going on? “I realized that the application misunderstood.
Alijah was released from the hospital last weekAnd his father said he was on the right track for a complete recovery. Although there were no major injuries, Gilbert said that Alijah had been placed in a coma because of the smoke he inhaled when she was trapped inside the Cybertruck for at least 10 minutes.
Despite the hour at the start, a group of passers -by, described by Gilbert as “angels”, would have heard the accident and would have managed to get Alijah out of Cybertruck, which includes electronic doors without traditional handles.
“My thing was to make sure that there were no broken members, there were no burns. Fortunately for him, trapped inside a car for so long, it is lucky that there were passers -by who heard the accident so early in the morning that brought him out.
“He was a little stronger than they thought. He woke up becoming crazy, so they put him in a coma induced just to get some fresh air. … They got smoke and all that of his (lungs). I guess he was in the car, he looked like about 10, 12 minutes. … Inspire that.”
Tesla website presents an explanator on how to open the doors of the cybertruck when there is no powerBut only from the inside. We do not know if it was the situation last month, but the photos of the scene showed that the car front was completely destroyed.
Gilbert said that Alijah always had a sense of humor during recovery. When he learned that he woke up on a coma in a hospital under the UCLA umbrella, the Trojan horse commissioners would have joked by saying to apologize to the USC head coach Eric Musselman:
“Tell Mus I'm sorry I'm at the UCLA.”
Alijah recently completed its junior season at Chatsworth high school in the San Fernando Valley region in Los Angeles. The 6 -foot 6 -inch goalkeeper received electricity programs such as Kansas, Kentucky and Alabama, but chose to stay at home with the USC in a decision announced in January. He is the only member of Top 10 rivals in 2026 be engaged in a school.
