“Basketball shorts, basketball shoes, a book about basketball, basketball video games — you get him something to do with basketball, and you know he’s going to be happy,” said his father, former professional basketball player Roberto Bergersen, a second-round draft pick of the Atlanta Hawks in the 1999 NBA draft.
The 6-foot-6 sophomore who is gradually seeing more playing time for the Cougars (3-1, 11-8) can’t help it. He attended his first basketball game — at Boise State, where his father carved out a Hall of Fame career — before he was a week old and spent years of his childhood traveling around the world as Roberto Bergersen played professionally in France, Belgium, Italy, Turkey and Spain and for the Idaho Stampede of the NBA Development League.