Gilbert Arenas Breaks Silence On Son Alijah's Major Injury

"The boy, he just does too much," Arenas said. "He was fine one day, and then he was hurt the next. He was doing bleacher work and he said he was running the bleachers, trying to get in shape for an hour, and he must've irritated on the bleachers.

"These four, five, six months, he should learn how to sit down, rest, and listen to his body. Understand that as much training as you do, you've gotta recover. He realized he got that part of the gene that just wants to work, and he has to understand, you can't work out four, five times a day," he added.

Arenas recently returned to on-court activities after an April car crash briefly forced doctors to place him into an induced coma due to smoke inhalation.

The five-star recruit suffered no significant injuries in the accident otherwise and was tracking to debut with USC this season before the setback with his knee.