Wednesday's two games are both Game 2s in series where the underdog had different outcomes. Philadelphia lost by 25 in New York on Monday and heads back to MSG needing to prove Game 1 wasn't a preview of the whole series. Minnesota — with Edwards off the bench — somehow won in San Antonio despite Wembanyama swatting away a playoff-record 12 shots. Philly looks to change the script whereas the Timberwolves hope to repeat their Game 1 outcome.

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Philadelphia 76ers (7) at New York Knicks (3) | 7:00pm ET, ESPN

Game 2. New York leads series 1-0.

The Knicks are operating at a level that is difficult to game-plan for right now. They've won three consecutive playoff games by at least 25 points — including a 51-point Game 6 obliteration of Atlanta and a Game 1 blowout of the Sixers that felt surgical from the opening tip. Madison Square Garden has been the loudest, most dominant home environment in the East this postseason, and the formula New York has been executing — Brunson-Towns pick-and-roll, Anunoby defending everything, a bench that holds leads comfortably — hasn't had a crack appear in it since the Hawks nearly stole a series in the first round.

Philadelphia's problem heading into Game 2 is structural. Embiid is managing a knee issue and the residual fatigue of returning from abdominal surgery mid-postseason. He has had extraordinary moments since coming back — his 33-point Game 7 against Boston was one of the best individual performances of the first round — but sustaining that over a full second-round series against a complete, rested Knicks team is a different kind of ask. Without Embiid at his most dominant in the post, the Sixers' halfcourt offense relies on Maxey isolation and pick-and-roll actions that the Knicks defended cleanly in Game 1. Towns anchors the paint on one end and runs the floor on the other — he has been the series' most versatile weapon through one game and Philadelphia hasn't found an answer.

George needs a moment in this series and hasn't had it yet. He has been the Sixers' most important secondary piece in theory and their least defining one in practice across the postseason. A complete 25-plus-point two-way game from him in Game 2 at MSG would change the entire conversation about what Philadelphia can do in this series. Grimes and Edgecombe have both provided bench contributions when the moment called for it — the Sixers have depth, they have shooting, they have a franchise center. What they need is for all of those things to show up in the same game, in the same building where they just got blown out by double digits.

Philadelphia wins if Embiid is assertive early and forces the Knicks to double-team him in ways that open the three-point line for Maxey and George, and the Sixers' shooting comes back to life in a building where they shot well earlier this postseason. Stealing a game on the road to even this series would be the Sixers' most important result since their Game 7 win over Boston.

New York wins if Brunson and Towns continue operating as the most cohesive offensive tandem in the East, the Garden crowd extends its unbeaten postseason home record, and the Knicks' defense makes Embiid's heavy minutes feel like weight he's carrying rather than fuel he's burning. Going up 2-0 against the 7-seed who just beat Boston would put New York firmly in control of a series they were supposed to dominate from the start.

Minnesota Timberwolves (6) at San Antonio Spurs (2) | 9:30pm ET, ESPN

Game 2. Minnesota leads series 1-0.

Let's be clear about what happened Monday night in San Antonio. Victor Wembanyama blocked 12 shots — a single-game playoff record — and his team still lost. Julian Champagnie's three-pointer at the buzzer bounced off the rim and Minnesota escaped with a road win that nobody, including the Timberwolves, fully expected. The Spurs dominated stretches of that game. Wembanyama was a force of nature on the defensive end. And yet Minnesota found a way, which is the most consistent thing this team has done since the Denver series began.

Edwards' availability for Game 1 is now confirmed — he was in the lineup. How effective he was and how many minutes he played will shape how San Antonio adjusts for Game 2. The Spurs know Wembanyama's shot-blocking presence is legitimately historic, but the pick-and-roll coverages that left open corner threes for Minnesota's shooters and the late-game breakdown that allowed the Wolves to hold on are the correctable issues that Mitch Johnson will address before tonight. Castle and Fox have been the Spurs' most reliable offensive pieces this postseason, and Harper — the rookie who had 27 points in Game 3 against Portland — gives San Antonio a third ball-handler capable of creating his own shot.

Minnesota's situation is still medically precarious. DiVincenzo is gone for the season. Dosunmu's calf keeps him sidelined. Edwards is back but his explosiveness is not what it was before the hyperextension — every burst, every drive, every defensive assignment carries an asterisk until proven otherwise. What the Wolves have shown throughout this postseason is that their collective identity — Gobert in the paint, McDaniels defending everyone, Randle providing secondary scoring, Reid off the bench — can win games even when the star power is diminished. Gobert and Wembanyama squaring off in the paint is the most compelling individual subplot in this entire bracket, and tonight it gets its second chapter.

San Antonio wins if the Spurs correct the late-game breakdown that cost them Game 1, Fox and Castle take over as the primary offensive engines, and the Frost Bank Center crowd makes the environment uncomfortable enough to force Minnesota into the kind of late-game mistakes that weren't there on Monday. A series split heading to Minneapolis would completely reset the dynamic.

Minnesota wins if Edwards shows enough health to be a genuine offensive threat and the Wolves' defensive discipline — which held San Antonio to a losing performance despite Wembanyama's record-setting individual night — translates to a road game where the crowd will be loudest in the moments Minnesota needs quiet most. Stealing both games in San Antonio before heading home would be historic.

The Knicks are as hot as any team in this postseason. The Spurs have the most dominant defensive player on the floor in either game. Both home teams have answered problems before — New York ground through the Hawks, San Antonio dismissed Portland — and both now face opponents who have different objectives.

The second round rewards adjustment. Monday's surprises need Tuesday's answers. Tonight is where we find out if either home team has one.