Joseph Emmanuel Arinze Eriobu Jr. (born February 12, 1992) is a Filipino-Nigerian basketball player. Eriobu was a long-time player in the

Philippine Basketball Association The Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) is a men's professional basketball league in the Philippines composed of twelve company-branded franchised teams. Founded in 1975, it is the first professional basketball league in Asia and is the se ...

(PBA). He was drafted 4th overall by the

Mahindra Floodbuster The Terrafirma Dyip is a professional basketball team playing in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). The team is owned by Terrafirma Realty Development Corporation and originally played under its affiliate company Columbian Autocar Cor ...

in the

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. He would later play for the

Phoenix Fuel Masters The Phoenix Super LPG Fuel Masters is a professional basketball team owned by Phoenix Petroleum Philippines, Inc., which debuted in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) in the 2016 Commissioner's Cup. The franchise began after the comp ...

and

Blackwater Elite The Blackwater Bossing is a professional basketball team owned by Ever Bilena, Inc. that is playing in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) beginning in the 2014–2015 season. The franchise began as one of the founding teams in the PB ...

before being left unsigned to any PBA team in 2019. He would play for Hong Kong Eastern in the

ASEAN Basketball League The ASEAN Basketball League (ABL) is a professional men's basketball league in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong/Macau, which includes six teams from Southeast Asian nations (Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam), one tea ...

. Eriobu would shift to 3x3, joining the

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of the

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with the aim of eventually returning to the main 5x5 PBA league.

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* 1992 births Living people Blackwater Bossing players Terrafirma Dyip players Eastern Sports Club basketball players Filipino people of Nigerian descent Filipino men's basketball players Mapúa Cardinals basketball players Phoenix Super LPG Fuel Masters players Small forwards Terrafirma Dyip draft picks Philippines national 3x3 basketball team players PBA 3x3 players Filipino men's 3x3 basketball players {{Nigeria-basketball-bio-stub