{"id":95540,"date":"2026-04-03T10:16:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T17:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=95540"},"modified":"2026-04-03T10:19:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T17:19:43","slug":"fanview-4-3-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=95540","title":{"rendered":"FanView: 4\/3\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_89497\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89497\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-89497\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/OSCAR-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/OSCAR-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/OSCAR-70x70.jpeg 70w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/OSCAR-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/OSCAR-144x144.jpeg 144w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/OSCAR.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-89497\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joe T., always working hard&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>By Joe Torosian<\/p>\n<p>Kick it!<\/p>\n<p>The Oklahoma City Thunder either told the Los Angeles Lakers, &#8216;Run along back to Camp Snoopy, kids\u2014this is where the big boys play.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Or, they said\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Go home and get your blanking shine box!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Choose your metaphor.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Speaking of abominations, why, while playing in front of a national audience, in a statement game, did the Lakers think it was good mojo to wear those hideous black jerseys?<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re the Los Angeles Lakers!<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s next, UNIQLO Court at Crypto Arena?<\/p>\n<p>Regarding the game, once you saw the Thunder&#8217;s length and youth, you knew the Lakers were toast.<br \/>\nTomorrow, I&#8217;m rooting for Michigan over Arizona. Not a fan of the desert, and I&#8217;ve spent some time in Michigan\u2026so &#8220;Hail to The Victors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On a personal level, it would really help me to have Illinois beat UConn. On the flip side, I want the Huskies because a lot of people don&#8217;t like Dan Hurley.<\/p>\n<p>Is the NFL Draft appointment viewing for you?<\/p>\n<p>When the first three rounds were on Saturday, I cleared the deck. I hated the red carpet move to Thursday nights and backed off for a while, but it&#8217;s football. I couldn&#8217;t stay away.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday night of the draft is appointment viewing for me, but I always prefer Day 2 of the draft\u2026because, generally, that&#8217;s when the Rams start picking. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What I absolutely can\u2019t stand are the background stories\u2026everyone is playing for someone, from somewhere, for some reason that\u2019s really important<\/p>\n<p>#19\u2014May the San Francisco Giants rot and lie stinking in the earth.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Game Day In The RamCave\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"520\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?preview=inline&#038;linkCode=kpd&#038;ref_=k4w_oembed_tqO3I2MvkvbPMl&#038;asin=B0DFTLJVY6&#038;tag=kpembed-20\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Back to the Lakers:<br \/>\nIt wasn&#8217;t the best of all situations, but I loved how Austin Reaves defended Luca Doncic to a fan last night. While Luca was injured on the floor, an OKC fan mocked him, and Reaves answered back.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the kind of thing that makes you love team sports. And, if you&#8217;ve had the good fortune of speaking with a former professional athlete, many of them will tell you that&#8217;s what they miss most.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All men want, not something to do, but something to be.&#8221;\u2014Thoreau<\/p>\n<p>Amen!<\/p>\n<p>The players miss being part of the team, connection, having someone&#8217;s back, and someone having their back.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the macro, that&#8217;s what soldiers, who have been under fire, say. In the micro, it&#8217;s a similar feeling to athletes and other professions.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, Doncic going down with a hamstring is the worst possible news for the Lakers\u2026 I&#8217;m not even a Laker fan, but he makes them interesting.<\/p>\n<p>And with Doncic out\u2026the Lakers be done.<\/p>\n<p>The Dude abides\u2026<\/p>\n<p>1,263<br \/>\n1 Peter 3:15<br \/>\njtbank1964@yahoo.com<br \/>\nFollow Joe on X: @joet13b<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Joe Torosian Kick it! The Oklahoma City Thunder either told the Los Angeles Lakers, &#8216;Run along back to Camp Snoopy, kids\u2014this is where the big boys play.&#8217; Or, they said\u2026 &#8216;Go home and get your blanking shine box!&#8217; Choose your metaphor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fanview"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95541,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95540\/revisions\/95541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}