{"id":145006,"date":"2026-01-22T18:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T18:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/145006\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T18:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T18:21:08","slug":"alijah-arenas-makes-usc-debut-after-tesla-cybertruck-crash-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/145006\/","title":{"rendered":"Alijah Arenas makes USC debut after Tesla Cybertruck crash \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alijah Arenas made his long-awaited debut for Southern California on Wednesday night nine months after suffering injuries in a fiery <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/news\/local\/alijah-arenas-usc-tesla-cybertruck-crash\/3686187\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tesla Cybertruck crash<\/a> in Los Angeles&#8217; San Fernando Valley.<\/p>\n<p>Arenas, who injured in knee in the April crash, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/tag\/usc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trojans<\/a> fell 74-68 to Northwestern. The freshman who was one of USC&#8217;s top recruits had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DTzKSfClF1e\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">eight points<\/a>, two rebounds and two assists in 29 minutes. He was 3-of-15 from the floor and failed to convert on six 3-point attempts. <\/p>\n<p>USC fell to 14-5, 3-5 in the Big Ten. <\/p>\n<p>Arenas, the son of former NBA All-Star Gilbert Arenas, returned to practice about a month ago. Gilbert Arenas was at Galen Center for Wednesday night&#8217;s game. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was great to have him back with the rest of the guys,\u201d coach Eric Musselman said last month following Arenas&#8217; first practice. \u201cHe\u2019s got such a great basketball IQ and brings a tremendous amount of energy. It looked like he had been a part of practice for quite some time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Arenas was behind the wheel of a Cybertruck when it crashed head-on into a tree in the 7900 block of Corbin Avenue in Winnetka. He was hospitalized for six days and needed surgery to repair the torn meniscus in his knee.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-6 Arenas was a McDonald&#8217;s All-American and five-star recruit from Chatsworth High School.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alijah Arenas made his long-awaited debut for Southern California on Wednesday night nine months after suffering injuries in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49,127,3533],"class_list":{"0":"post-145006","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-la","9":"tag-la-headlines","10":"tag-la-news","11":"tag-los-angeles","12":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","13":"tag-los-angeles-news","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-usc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}