For Star subscribers: Last week, Norman died in Los Angeles. He was 68.
Greg Hansen Among the many assignments of 1970s Arizona assistant basketball coach Jerry Holmes was to make sure Coniel Norman got to campus in time for morning classes. At times, this was more difficult than recruiting against UCLA or Arizona State.
"I was overjoyed to see him again, but I could see right away Corn was struggling with his health," says Holmes, a retired business executive who has lived in Tucson for almost 50 years."He was hooked up to an oxygen canister 24/7. He had difficulty moving around. It was so sad." Sadly, Norman’s legacy wasn’t his NBA career. He played parts of three seasons for the 76ers and Clippers. His NBA career was over after 99 games. He enlisted in the Army, served four years in Germany and later played a few years in the EuroLeague, although there is no official listing of how long he played, or how successful he was.
Renee made contact with Norman and assisted in his move home to Detroit. For a few years Norman lived in a $23 million government complex to house homeless military veterans. Just as his life got back on track, his health began to fail. "Nichols graduated from the Tuskegee Institute and had the best interests of his young Black players in mind," Snowden said."We would have never had a chance to get Corn without Coach Nichols’ guidance. In retrospect, keeping 'Popcorn' in Tucson for two years was as good as we were ever going to do. The NBA created the ‘hardship’ draft about that time, and that was music to his ears.
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