Miami Heat fans will sing anthem for the Game 2

MIAMI (AP) -- For the Miami Heat, one national-anthem performer will not be enough Tuesday night.

Heat fans will sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" before the Game 2 between Boston Celtics. In Eastern Conference playoff series with the Boston Celtics on Tuesday night. Instead, the Heat are encouraging fans to be the singers, making that change less than one day following the announcement that Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. forces in Pakistan.

The Heat have honored soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan at home games for several seasons, and say Tuesday's game will include an enhanced military tribute. Members of the armed services will unfurl the 50-foot American flag at center court during the anthem, a job typically handled by Heat employees.

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Henry Hernandez, along with his wife Julie and their children Alexa and Matthew will be honored before the game, part of the "Home Strong" program Heat President Pat Riley founded five years ago. Hundreds of soldiers have been recognized in brief pregame ceremonies at midcourt just before tip-off of every Miami home game since the program was born.

Rivers said, that It was phenomenal and awesome. It actually put things in their proper place. When you're watching film, you're cussing to yourself, you're writing bad words down on a piece of paper and all of a sudden this comes on, it was awesome. Just like we remember 9/11, I think we'll remember this moment as well. It was just really neat."

Riley has long had a saying, that sports are merely the toy department of human affairs.

Those words resonated deeply within Spoelstra on Sunday night.

"What we do has no ramifications on the real world," Spoelstra said. "That is real. It's something else that that was able to be accomplished. We're trying to focus on what we do, but it is just a game and it is the toy department. It was uplifting to find out that news