USC basketball commit Alijah Arenas, who is the son of former NBA player Gilbert Arenas, is making significant progress as he continues to recover from a single-car crash that temporarily left him in a medically induced coma.

Alijah was deemed stable at the scene, but he was transported to a local hospital and was briefly placed into a medically induced coma due to smoke inhalation. The family said in a statement that Alijah wrote on a piece of paper that he remembered the smoke from the crash and asked, “Did anyone get hurt?” after he woke up the following day.

Four days after his involvement in a serious car accident, USC guard Alijah Arenas appears to be on the mend. Arenas is expected to return home from the hospital "very soon," according to a Monday afternoon report from Ryan Kartje of The Los Angeles Times that cited ex-UCLA forward Josiah Johnson,