LAS VEGAS — The Nets continued their offseason makeover by re-signing Alan Anderson.
The 31-year-old swingman signed a two-year deal worth $2.6 million to return to Brooklyn. The second year of the deal is a player option.
Re-signing Anderson gives the Nets some depth on the wings, as he is capable of playing both shooting guard and small forward, is a capable 3-point shooter and can also provide a defensive presence at either spot.
Along with the signings of both 2011 second-round pick Bojan Bogdanovic and Markel Brown, the first of the team’s three second-round picks in last month’s draft — both of which haven’t been announced but are expected to be soon — the Nets will have 14 players under contract, one short of the limit.
Once those two signings are added, the Nets will have a payroll of about $93.5 million, and will be set to pay about $127.8 million in combined payroll and luxury-tax commitments. It’s a number that likely will be tops in the NBA again next season, but would be a little more than $65 million less than the NBA record of the roughly $193.5 million they spent last season.
Anderson was the last player signed by the Nets last summer, but turned into a productive piece off the bench for them, averaging over 20 minutes per game in both the regular season and playoffs and becoming a consistent cog in their rotation. Then-coach Jason Kidd’s decision to insert Anderson into the starting lineup in place of Shaun Livingston for Games 6 and 7 of their first-round series against the Raptors helped swing the series in the Nets’ favor.
In 78 regular-season games last season, including 26 starts, Anderson averaged 7.2 points per game and shot just under 34 percent from 3-point range.