Leave it to Al Jefferson, the Pacers' veteran sage, to summarize the situation as succinctly as possible.
"LeBron's LeBron," he says. "The name speaks for itself."
The numbers speak for themselves, too, and that's the bold-faced challenge facing the Pacers as they prepare for their first-round playoff series with the Cleveland LeBrons. The teams on which James has played, in Cleveland and Miami, have won 21 straight games in the first round, an NBA record. They are 12-0 in first-round series outcomes, have a 48-7 overall first-round record and are 4-0 against the Pacers.
Rebuttals can be made, of course, in the present tense.