It's All Over Now. Or Is it? Perhaps, in the end, the Heat's N.B.A. championship will bring greater relief to everyone else than even to LeBron James himself. Because while yes, even James's superteam shortcut of sorts to the championship that would make his nickname sound fitting instead of ridiculous was harder than he expected, it was taxing for all sides. For the anti-James camp, it took energy to maintain a proper level of antipathy, when every missed fourth-quarter free throw or highlight-quality dunk qualifies as news in the James-obsessed N.B.A. Meanwhile, his defenders shouted themselves hoarse trying to drown out the detractors, especially with the Heat's tendency -- until the finals at least -- to make everything more difficult than it probably needed to be. And even those who sat back and considered "As LeBron Turns" to be a mostly fascinating nightly pschyodrama, it got rather exhausting. We worked overtime playing the role of his therapist and now we need a vacation. LeBron James and Dwyane Wade doing some celebrating near the end of Game 5 on Thursday night. The Game 5 victory over the Thunder Thursday night put an end to all that because, well, it is almost July and as Kevin Arnovitz writes on ESPN.com, maybe this whole enterprise can be about basketball again. That doesn't dim the celebration in Miami, where James capped his remarkable journey from the finals loss a year ago, which Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo.com hails for how it humanized him. He soaked it in with full knowledge of how badly being on the other side felt, Brian Windhorst writes on ESPN.com, and found that what he thought was an easier road to a championship than staying in Cleveland was still plenty hard, as Ian Thomsen writes on SI.com. James vented that thought when he said, "It's about damn time," to the crowd, as Dave Hyde writes in The Sun-Sentinel, which showed that his perspective only goes so deep. Because really? It's about damn time? Um, two seasons isn't exactly an ultramarathon. Even Wade, who presumably does have a bit more perspective to go with his two championships, admitted the Big Three denizens thought this was going to fall into their lap in their first season. (So yes, even in victory the Heat did throw a bit more motivation to the disdainful crowd, abetted by team president Pat Riley proclaiming this is the beginning for the Heat and not the culmination, writes Dan Le Batard in the Miami Herald. You can almost hear all the cringing.) It ended up taking two melodrama-filled seasons, as well as a matchup against the not-ready-for-prime-time Thunder, who had seemed so ready in ushering the Spurs out of the playoffs. But the Heat were clearly the better and more mature team, and the blowout nature of the Game 5 loss will help drive that lesson home, writes Berry Tramel in The Oklahoman. Johnny Ludden of Yahoo.com predicts the Thunder will come back wiser and tougher for this experience. Hardly anyone expects the Thunder to fade away, especially because of Kevin Durant, who handled the defeat graciously, if painfully. Durant might take a bit of solace in knowing that much of the world is not as fixated on James and the Heat's victory as American sports audiences. In most parts, Euro 2012 is a much more worthy distraction. And the triumph of the day there belonged to a player equally as maligned as James: Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo. He powered Portugal's victory over the Czech Republic, making his case for greatness the right way for a change, writes Jamie Trecker on Foxsports.com, instead of just complaining a lot. This was his most spectacular turn on the big stage, and Ravi Ubha writes on ESPN.com that he was all but unstoppable. Portugal did help matters by changing tactics, writes Grant Wahl on SI.com. Unfortunately, this nice little tournament is about to get a lot less charming when it expands from 16 to 24 teams, with James Lawson of The Independent condemning UEFA's greed in deciding to expand it. In truly sobering news stateside, the trial of Jerry Sandusky was delivered into the hands of a jury on Thursday after powerful closing arguments and a few more twists in a case that hardly needed any. One of Sandusky's adopted sons, 33-year-old Matt, went public with allegations of abuse that he said he offered to testify about in the trial, but as Dan Wetzel explains on Yahoo.com, he made them too late to be included. Matt Sandusky's difficult story was highlighted in a March article by Sara Ganim of The Patriot-News. At least the judge and jury in the case of LeBron James and the Heat are merely metaphorical. And due for a rest.