There was the quick-triggered 3-pointer from Aaron Wiggins, who received the basketball from Gilgeous-Alexander and promptly released a jumper. Twenty-one seconds flashed on the shot clock when the basketball slid off Wiggins’ fingers. The change wasn’t just that the shot went in; it was that it went up at all.

Indiana Pacers coach Rick Carlisle took exception to criticism levied at officiating in the NBA Finals, specifically the rebukes of Scott Foster.