From my seat inside the arena Monday, …

From my seat inside the arena Monday, for the Oklahoma City Thunder’s 104-100 win over Houston in Game 6, I could see Paul looking down toward Thunder coach Billy Donovan with 3.8 seconds left. What the TNT camera showed was Paul and Harden standing next to each other at the foul line, while Danilo Gallinari was about to make the game-clinching free throw, staring daggers through each other. But their eyes never met. “I wasn’t looking at him,” Paul told me. “I was looking down at coach, and then at the scoreboard, because if Gallo makes that shot, it’s game.”