Arenas, top-5 recruit in ’26, reclassifying to ’25
- Jeff Borzello, ESPN Staff WriterDec 3, 2024, 11:27 AM ET Close Basketball recruiting insider.
- Signed up with ESPN in 2014.
- Graduate of University of Delaware.Top-five hire Alijah Arenas
, boy of former NBA All-Star Gilbert Arenas, remains in the process of reclassifying into the 2025 class, his daddy announced Monday night.Arenas made the statement on his NBA Watch Party stream.”We’re reclassing up right now. I think they just authorized it today,”Arenas said. “This is his senior year now.” Editor’s Picks 1 Related A 6-foot-6 guard from Chatsworth High School(California
), Arenas
is ranked as the No. 1 shooting guard and the No. 4 general prospect in the 2026 class. If he does indeed total his reclassification, he will turn into one of the 5 best offered recruits in the country.Arenas is among the elite scorers in high school basketball. In six games on the Adidas 3SSB in
July, Arenas averaged 22.0 points and 4.2 rebounds, making better than 46 %of his attempts from 3-point range. That stretch consisted of a 29-point, six-rebound effort versus top-five recruit Nate Ament’s Team Loaded VA team.Arenas ‘recruitment is not too sophisticated, although he recently visited Arizona for the Wildcats’game versus Duke and has likewise been to UCLA’s campus.
Alijah Arenas’sister Izela plays at Louisville, and the Cardinals have actually been associated with Alijah’s recruitment.Other schools linked to Arenas consist of Kentucky, which reportedly provided him last month, Kansas, Alabama, Texas and USC.He will turn 18 years old in March.Gilbert Arenas played two seasons at Arizona, assisting lead the Wildcats to the 2001 championship game game, before investing more than a decade in the NBA. He was a three-time NBA All-Star
, earning All-NBA honors in three consecutive seasons 2005-07.