Laura Govan seems to need a minute to process his son’s recovery process and Gilbert Arenas’ arrest earlier this Wednesday. As if the fact that last week, it was announced that her son Alijah Arenas, a freshman at USC, would have to undergo a knee surgery that will take him out for 6-8 months wasn’t enough, Wednesday brought the arrest of her ex-husband, Gilbert Arenas, on charges of illegal gambling.
Govan shared a bit of her destressing routine on her Instagram story, with a boomerang video of her painting.
“Needed to clear my head…” Was the caption she added
The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced this week that Gilbert Arenas had been arrested on charges of running an illegal high-stakes poker game out of his mansion in Encino, California. Allegedly, the former NBA player ran the venture through a man called Arthur Kats, who wasn’t mentioned in the arrest lists in the documents released by the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
While Arenas denies any involvement, the indictment features a picture of a poker table with the following words on rotulated “Arenas Poker Club”.
Gilbert Arenas was arrested in connection with a federal indictment alleging he hosted illegal high-stakes poker games at his Encino, California mansion, according to a release from the United States Attorney’s Office of Central California. https://t.co/laoSHG7kgD
— ESPN (@espn) July 30, 2025
Gilbert Arenas played in the NBA between 2001 and 2012, being a three-time NBA All-Star (2005-2007), once an All-NBA Second Team selection (2007), and twice an All-NBA Third Team selection (2005 and 2006). He was also the NBA Most Improved Player in 2003.
Gilbert Arenas on Alijah Arenas’ knee injury
This hasn’t been the best of times for the Arenas family, as just last week, the son of the former NBA star suffered a knee injury that will require surgery and 6-8 months of recovery. It was just this week that Gilbert Arenas opened up about the situation in an episode of his podcast “Gil’s Arena”:
“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.
USC coach Eric Musselman, on the other hand, spoke with the press last week and let it be known that Alijah Arenas’ health is the Trojans’ utmost priority. They seem confident to have he will be ready to play at least part of the upcoming season.
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