From Highlight Zone to Twilight Zone - Leading Off If this was the weekend you chose to unplug from sports, to de-LeBronify your life, to forget they're still playing hockey in June, along with golf and tennis and a bunch of Olympic sports you forgot existed, plugging back in today might crash your hard drive, both real and metaphorical. The weekend became a holding pen for odd happenings and stuff you didn't see coming. Elise Amendola/Associated Press Stranger things have and did happen, but LeBron James was on the bench for the end of the Heat's playoff game against Boston. Let's see, you had the Thunder rolling back the Spurs" dominance to tie their playoff series at two games each. The Kings went up, 2-0, in the Stanley Cup finals by waiting until overtime - again - to unleash the one great shot that counted on Martin Brodeur. You had Tiger Woods grabbing a moment of magic out of his past to win a tournament with none other than Jack Nicklaus looking on. A great American gymnast, Shawn Johnson, bowed out at the ancient age of 20. The United States men's soccer team tried to help Canada remember it has a soccer team, too, but even sort of failed at that in a spirit-deadening 0-0 tie. Weirder still, had you tuned back in a tad early, say, in overtime of the Heat-Celtics game late Sunday night, you might have thought you'd have entered another dimension altogether. Yes, that was LeBron James sitting on the bench as the Celtics won because James had fouled out. You read that right. LeBron James had fouled out. For good measure, Paul Pierce had too. Had it gone two overtimes, Rod Serling would have been doing the play-by-play. Perhaps it was a fitting, if altogether bizarre, moment in the James-Pierce rivalry, as Billy Witz writes on Foxsports.com, that they shared sideline seats during the final moments of this game, which brought Boston all the way back for an improbable 2-2 tie in the Eastern Conference finals. They shared the same view everyone saw of Dwyane Wade's game-deciding 3-pointer spinning off the rim and changing everything, as Jackie MacMullan writes on ESPN.com. The Celtics were going to live and die by the long ball in this game, writes Steve Bulpett in The Boston Herald, and it just so happened the last one bounced their way. But for the moment, it seems the Celtics have the upper hand, with James unable to make anything bend to his will, writes Ian Thomsen on SI.com, and the Celtics" Big Three playing with a greater sense of urgency, writes Linda Robertson in The Miami Herald. If anything, Wade's miss opened the door for this to be a classic series, writes Brian Windhorston ESPN.com, even if the referees keep calling offensive fouls as if they are getting bonuses for them. The Stanley Cup finals have a way to go before they can see classic through a telescope. Yes, the games have been close, but the cautious play didn't give way to anything dramatic until way past a lot of bedtimes in either of the first two overtime games. Now, the Kings are back home, trying to share more than real estate with the Lakers, as Helene Elliott writes in The Los Angeles Times. They are rekindling memories of the "93 finals team, writes Arash Markazi on ESPN.com, and trying to do it one better. Hockey had another oddity drop into its weekend with the news that Boston goalie Tim Thomas has decided to take a year off, a decision he didn't entirely clarify in a Facebook post. The French Open apparently decided on a whole theme of wacky on Sunday, as Jon Wertheim writes on SI.com, with the top-seeded woman, Victoria Azarenka, dropping out in straight sets and Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer both needing to scramble for victories. The only sanity seems to be happening in Rafael Nadal's world, as he tracks down Bjorn Borg in the record books, Kamakshi Tandon writes on ESPN.com. The happenings at golf's Memorial tournament would not seem strange at all had the last two and a half years not happened in the career of Tiger Woods. But they did, and his dramatic victory tied Nicklaus's mark of P.G.A. Tour victories at Nicklaus's own tournament. There was plenty of the normal revelry, as Robert Lusetich helps provide on Foxsports.com, for any sign of renewed life from Woods's career, but at least the "Tiger's Back!" cries have been a bit more tempered than usual. Woods may be on his way back, writes Michael Rosenberg on SI.com, but he is not there yet, and Brian Murphy of Yahoo.com would like everyone to stop trying to analyze every Woods swing and just enjoy it when it goes right. That, however, would require a good bit of sanity, which was not the trend of the weekend.