3 NBA teams that recently came back from a 2-0 series deficit

The Toronto Raptors currently find themselves in a 2-0 hole.

In what has clearly been a mismatch of a series, the Cleveland Cavaliers have defeated the Raptors by an average margin of 25.0 points during the first two games of the Eastern Conference Finals. The Cavaliers' total margin of victory of 50 points through the first two games of this series is the second-largest margin in conference finals history.

If there is any glimmer of hope for Toronto in this series, it's the fact that they have yet to play a home game. They will have the chance to do so in Games 3 and 4, with the first one taking place tonight at Air Canada Centre on Saturday night.

It is not often that a team comes back from a 2-0 deficit in a series, especially one that takes place in the conference finals. However, it has been done before, and it's been done in recent memory.

Three teams—the 2006 Miami Heat, 2007 Cavaliers and the 2012 Oklahoma City Thunder—have all come back from 2-0 deficits after dropping the first two games of the series on the road. The Heat did so in the Finals versus the Dallas Mavericks, the Cavaliers did it versus the Detroit Pistons in the 2007 ECF and the Thunder accomplished this feat versus the San Antonio Spurs in the Western Conference Finals en route to their only Finals appearance to date in the Kevin Durant era.

Having said that, there was a popular theme in all three of these series comeback—each team had monster performances from their star players.

Dwyane Wade averaged 39.3 points on his way to Finals MVP during the final four games of that 2006 series. LeBron James averaged 31.3 points over the final four games in the 2007 ECF, while Durant, Russell Westbrook, James Harden formed the league's best trio at the time.

The Raptors' star players are Kyle Lowry and DeMar Derozan, and neither looks like a superstar right now.

If Lowry continues to shoot below 29 percent from the field while turning the ball over at a rapid rate, Toronto will be looking at an embarrassing sweep in their first-ever Conference Finals appearance.