INDEPENDENCE, Ohio -- No NBA team has ever recovered from the 3-0 deficit in which the Cavaliers find themselves in the 2017 Finals.
Teams are 0-126 in those series.
Cleveland is, of course, the only team team to bounced back from a 3-1 hole, digging out of it last year against the Golden State Warriors to win the franchise's first title.
Oh, by the way, the Warriors trailed the Oklahoma City Thunder 3-1 in last year's Western Conference finals but prevailed. And Kevin Durant was on that team.
Which brings us to Cavs backup forward Richard Jefferson, who was asked after shootaround Friday before Game 4 how his team avoids a defeatist attitude given its predicament.