British Basketball League teams in the Semi-finals are also seeded, with the highest-ranking team drawn against the lowest-ranking team in one Semi-final and the two remaining teams drawn together in the other Semi-final. The culmination of the post-season is the grand Final, held at The O2 Arena in London, which sees the two Semi-final winners play a one-game event to determine the Play-off Champions. The BBL Cup emerged from a breakaway of the English Basketball Association-organised National Cup and was contested for the first time in the 2003–04 season, when Sheffield Sharks were the inaugural winners. The competition is a knockout tournament with
Canadian Elite Basketball League city of the forthcoming Canadian Elite Basketball League, playing out of the Sleeman Centre. On November 7, 2017, Fraser Valley Professional Basketball Club was announced, playing out of the Abbotsford Centre in Abbotsford, British Columbia. On November 22, the CEBL announced a team in Niagara playing out of the Meridian Centre would also be joining the league, which would later be confirmed as the Niagara River Lions then of the National Basketball League of Canada. At the same time, the CEBL also announced the creation of their launch committee: Mike Morreale, Glenn Young, Carman Adair, Sebastien Chevrier, Mardig Sevadijan, Noelvi