Three stars from Wednesday's NBA playoffs

Plus, Brown did the dirty work, grabbing 10 rebounds to negate what should have been a rebounding advantage for the plus-sized Magic team. Brown winning MVP for both the Eastern Conference Finals and NBA Finals already showed he's a big-time playoff performer, and Wednesday is another asset to his resume.

Cleveland Cavaliers guard Donovan Mitchell | 30 points, seven three-pointers

Mitchell had a relatively quiet game for three quarters in the Cavs' 121-112 win over the Miami Heat. Then in the fourth, he exploded for 17 of his 30 points.

The Cavs' All-Star guard has put up 30 points in both of Cleveland's victories, while dishing five assists in Game 1 and six in Game 2. Mitchell's doing this against a very solid Heat defense while turning the ball over just once Wednesday night.

The combination of racking up points while protecting the basketball is deadly, as is his three-point shooting. Mitchell's seven triples gave him 180 career three-pointers in 56 playoff games, the most anyone has had in their first 56 playoff appearances besides Stephen Curry.

Houston Rockets guard Jalen Green | 38 points, eight three-pointers, one missed punch

After the 23-year-old Green scored only seven points and shot 3-of-15 in the Houston Rockets' Game 1 loss, he had something to prove in Wednesday's Game 2. He responded with 38 points and eight three-pointers, plus some nasty dunks.

Green took a whopping 18 three-pointers and made eight of them, which is two more triples than his entire team had in Game 1. The Rockets cruised to a 109-94 win against a depleted Warriors team that lost Jimmy Butler to a first-quarter injury and Brandin Podziemski to an apparent stomach bug. Honorable mention goes to Alperen Sengun's 17-point, 16-rebound effort, with seven assists, but it was Green's volume and variety of scoring that really stood out.

His biggest miss came on a punch to the Warriors' Draymond Green, meaning he missed out on fulfilling the fantasies of many of Green's former opponents.

Draymond Green clearly sold the contact, but the Rockets guard was lucky to escape with a Flagrant 1 foul, and not the Flagrant 2 he would have received had his aim been better. Green-on-Green crime is no joke to the NBA league office.