Lior Berman didn't want a fancy video surprising him with a scholarship. He just wants to keep playing basketball.
Lior Berman didn’t want one of those classic heartwarming videos of a walk-on being moved onto a full scholarship. That’s not the type of person the reserved Auburn graduate guard is.
Berman had been a member of a three-time Alabama state champion Mountain Brook team, playing alongside five-star recruit Trendon Watford. Berman had offers to play at Division II and Division III schools. At that level, he was assured he’d get to play. “It’s hard, but it’s also easy and what I mean by that is it’s easy to stay motivated when you have that mindset,” Berman said. “You want to be ready and it just pushes you each day to just get up and think how can I get better today to help the team win? It’s also hard because you might not see results for a long time and you don’t know when you’ll see the results.”
Yet while Berman said there were hard nights where he just felt stuck, he never questioned if all the time spent for such little total result was worth it. Berman isn’t pursuing a graduate degree, at least not yet. He’s taking a lighter courseload this fall — just enough to be enrolled as an Auburn student — so instead of focusing heavily on school and basketball as he did the last four years, he wants to just focus on basketball. He said he’s taking a few personal finance classes. He’s also taking golf.Still a self-proclaimed terrible golfer, Berman said he can at least hold the club properly now.
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