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.