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
Eric Rodriguez (basketball) Eric Rodriguez (basketball) Frederick "Erick" Rodriguez (born April 15, 1981) also known as "Erod" is a Filipino professional basketball player who currently playing for the Cebu City Sharks of the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League (MPBL). He played for the Philippine Patriots in ASEAN Basketball League (ABL). Rodriguez is a former player of the Letran Knights as the team captain that championed in NCAA on 2003 and 2005 and also played for Toyota Balintawak in the Philippine Basketball League for 5 years. Rodriguez played in Letran for 4 years and helped them to win the championship in 2003 and 2005. He