Do the Heat Have Heart? Such is the state of the LeBron James-fixated N.B.A. that now everything - in the Eastern Conference at least - appears to revolve around the axis of the Miami Heat. Whatever happens in any game, it becomes some sort of a reflection on the Heat and their drive for the mythical seven championships. Granted, this is much easier to do when they're in the Eastern Conference finals, so even when the Celtics stage a gritty, for-the-ages victory in Game 5, it was, of course, more about what the Heat did not do. And what the Heat are not. Perhaps what the Heat had for breakfast. (Shredded wheat?! What are they thinking!?) As you might guess, Tuesday night's referendum on the Heat's thermal properties did not go well. Losing at home to a team that was supposed to be old and only hanging on for the ride is not in the myth-creating master plan. A few trend-bucking types actually gave the Celtics credit for this, with Jackie MacMullan writing on ESPN.com that the Celtics' inspiring will is what has turned the expectations on their ear and Steve Buckley of The Boston Herald describing Paul Pierce's critical 3-pointer over James as a bit of poetic redemption for last year's Game 5 Celtics collapse. Those Boston writer types can just be so logical. In the rest of the basketball universe, Pierce could have traveled to Jupiter and cured cancer and it would have been about the Heat. LeBron couldn't even get out of the Earth's atmosphere ... The Celtics' heart and will served to point out the Heat's lack of it, writes Ken Berger on CBSSports.com, their collective soul missing in the Heat's cobbled together group, writes Billy Witz on Foxsports.com. With Chris Bosh returning to the lineup, the loss fueled all the doubts about the Heat's weaknesses, writes Linda Robertson in The Miami Herald, and led Dave Hyde of The Sun Sentinel to wonder if the Big Three era is already over. Certainly the Celtics succeeded in letting all of the bluster out of American Airlines Arena, writes Ian Thomsen on SI.com, and Coach Erik Spoelstra sounded as if he felt his team's version of Armageddon was approaching, writes Adrian Wojnarowski on Yahoo.com. As the series returns to Boston for Game 6, therapists will be standing by. For all of us. The mood in Los Angeles Wednesday night will be much more like a surprise party, all the spoils hidden away until the unlikely celebrators - the Los Angeles Kings - win the Stanley Cup in the deciding game over New Jersey. The complication is that, as Lisa Dillman writes in The Los Angeles Times, the Kings have not been so good in Game 4s in the playoffs, with their only two losses coming in those games when they were trying to complete a sweep. The odds, however, are with the Kings, so it is worth taking a moment with Michael Farber of SI.com to contemplate just how crazy this whole playoff run has been. If the Kings win Game 4, they will tie the 1988 Edmonton Oilers, who only had about a half-dozen of the greatest players of all time, for the best N.H.L. playoff record, at 16-2. The Kings have a roster full of players whom non-die-hard fans had not heard of until about a week ago. The exception might have been goalie Jonathan Quick, whose otherworldly calm persists heading into Game 4, Nicholas Cotsonika writes on Yahoo.com. His much more famous counterpart, the Devils' Martin Brodeur, did not talk like a man about to make an exit, or consider retiring, writes A.J. Perez on Foxsports.com, and who is cherishing every last minute even if the series might seem like something he might want to forget. In the middle of planning their surprise Stanley Cup party, the Kings also made the remarkable move of offering a reward to help find the shooter who killed a 14-month-old baby Monday night in Watts. On the Olympics front, there is another shooting story that is altogether different but just as sad, as Vicki Michaelis of USA Today writes of Sarah Scherer's heading to the Olympics to compete in shooting in the wake of her brother's suicide. We are hoping this story does not have a sad ending: the former Dodgers (and United States Olympic team) manager Tommy Lasorda was hospitalized after what is described as a minor heart attack, because no heart attack can be truly mild when you're 84. The setbacks at the French Open were all confined to the courts Tuesday, with both Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Juan Martín del Potro coming oh-so-close to toppling Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer in the quarterfinals. Even though both matches went five sets, Djokovic was much closer to losing, writes Howard Bryant on ESPN.com, but persevered with sheer belief on the critical points. As Jon Wertheim writes on SI.com, he met the magnitude of the moment. Federer had a somewhat easier go of his turnaround, with del Potro's knee part of his downfall, as Greg Garber writes on ESPN.com, but also had the uncharacteristic moment of telling a noisy fan to shut up. Both Djokovic and Federer showed the kind of championship grit that has been missing from American tennis, writes Greg Couch on Foxsports.com. It is also notably missing from the Miami Heat, everyone will tell you, although the Celtics might have something to do with that.