{"id":32519,"date":"2025-07-24T00:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T00:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/32519\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T00:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T00:52:08","slug":"uscs-alijah-arenas-reportedly-tears-meniscus-in-blow-to-upcoming-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/32519\/","title":{"rendered":"USC&#8217;s Alijah Arenas Reportedly Tears Meniscus in Blow to Upcoming Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_2066ec3gw\">Nearly three months after his involvement in a frightening car accident, USC guard Alijah Arenas has reportedly suffered another setback.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_h2qt5d14q\">Arenas has torn his meniscus and is expected to be sidelined for at least six to eight months, according to a Wednesday afternoon report from veteran<a class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ChrisBHaynes\/status\/1948172166748602841\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"> basketball reporter Chris Haynes.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_v5ic2pn06\">The 18-year-old son of former NBA All-Star Gilbert Arenas is a rising freshman who chose the Trojans over a slew of other top basketball programs, including both Kansas and Kentucky. A native of Oakland who played high school basketball in Los Angeles, Arenas represented the West team in this year&#8217;s McDonald&#8217;s All-American Game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_bynq3fujh\">On April 24, Arenas was placed into a medically induced coma after a Tesla <a class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/college-basketball\/usc-freshman-alijah-arenas-details-what-happened-scary-cybertruck-accident\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cybertruck he was driving crashed<\/a> and caught fire. Two people pulled him to safety, and he did not suffer any major injuries; he was placed in a coma due to smoke he inhaled in the fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_tbtk6xjvr\">USC&#8217;s 2026 men&#8217;s basketball schedule has not been released, but should begin around early November.<\/p>\n<p>More College Basketball on Sports Illustrated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nearly three months after his involvement in a frightening car accident, USC guard Alijah Arenas has reportedly suffered&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[402,398,400,401,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-32519","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-basketball","11":"tag-ncaabasketball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}