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The long journey of Alan Anderson

Steve Simineri continues his profiles of Nets players with this one of Alan Anderson, whose career took him around the world before landing him in Brooklyn.

A decade ago the North Carolina Tar Heels emerged as the 2005 men’s basketball national champions for a fourth time, defeating a Deron Williams led Illinois team in the final 75-70. In the Semifinals they easily dispatched Tom Izzo’s Michigan State squad, whose best players were Maurice Ager, Shannon Brown and senior Alan Anderson.

"That was a lot of fun," said Anderson, who was a two-time team MVP in 2003 and 2005 and also won MSU’s John E.