Never a Dull Moment with Norm Van Lier, 1974

[Norm Van Lier was known as Stormin’ Norman. Or, to his teammates, “Little Rat.” He was the scurrying little guard with the beard and the intense eyes who during the mid-1970s teamed in the Chicago Bulls backcourt with the stoic veteran Jerry Sloan. Nearly 50 years later, it’s still hard to imagine an NBA backcourt that was any tougher than these two ho…