Every team wants to win the NBA Finals when the season starts, though, in today's NBA, only a handful teams have a realistic chance to do it.

The two favorites among that group were the Warriors and the Cavaliers, who are in the NBA Finals for the third straight year.

After splitting the last two titles, the Cavaliers are facing a sweep with a 3-0 deficit heading into Friday's Game 4 in Cleveland. And according to Cavs forward Richard Jefferson, if the Cavaliers don't rally to win the title, their season is a failure.

"If we don't win a championship, then the season was unsuccessful," he told reporters during Friday's shootaround. "That's it."

The Warriors and Cavaliers came into the NBA Finals with a combined 24-1 playoff record. The Warriors are seeking to become the first team to roll through the postseason unblemished, and losing four straight to the Cavaliers would four times as many losses the Warriors have had since Valentine's Day.

The odds are definitely not in the Cavs' favore.

"Nobody would be surprised at the end of the day if before this series you said the Cavs won," Jefferson added. "No one would be surprised if someone said San Antonio won a championship at the beginning of the season. No one would be, like, mind blown.

"So for the three, four teams that are in that position, regardless of how it ends or whatever, if you don't raise that banner the next year, then it was unsuccessful."