Alijah Arenas should wait to start out his faculty basketball profession.
The incoming USC freshman suffered a knee damage that required surgical procedure and can drive him to overlook six to eight months, the staff introduced Wednesday.
Basketball insider Chris Haynes, who first reported the damage, mentioned Arenas, the son of former NBA famous person Gilbert Arenas, suffered a torn meniscus.
“Alijah is a tremendous worker, teammate, competitor and person,” USC coach Eric Musselman mentioned in a press release. “He is understandably disappointed that he will not be able to take the court to start the season, but his health is our No. 1 priority.”
It’s been a scary few months for the youthful Arenas, who was put right into a medically induced coma following a daunting April automotive crash through which he misplaced management of his car and hit a fireplace hydrant and a tree.
His Tesla Cybertruck burst into flames, and Arenas mentioned he was out and in of consciousness earlier than going to the hospital.
He was launched a couple of week later.
“I switched lanes without meaning to, and I knew something was wrong, and next thing you know, I can’t get back to the left lane,” Arenas recalled on the finish of June. “So then a car is coming towards me, and I think that I’ll just pull over. So I speed up to pull over to the right in a neighborhood because there are cars parked on the street I’m on to the right. But when I’m speeding up to turn, I can’t stop. The wheel wasn’t responding to me as if I wasn’t in the car.”
Arenas is a five-star recruit who’s ranked No. 10 general by 247Sports and the nation’s prime taking pictures guard.
He obtained affords from Arizona, West Virginia, Alabama, Arizona State and California, amongst greater than a dozen others.
