This model features an iconic photograph of James Naismith (1861-1939), a Canadian-American primarily known as the inventor of basketball.

While working as a physical education instructor at the YMCA in Springfield, Massachusetts, he is captured holding a football/soccer ball in his right hand and an empty peach basket, repurposed as an improvised hoop, in his left.

This 1891 depiction illustrates the origin of basketball, which stemmed from Naismith's ingenious idea to find a fun way to practice a team sport indoors during the winter, between the American football and baseball seasons.

Embodying the fusion of photographic art and sport, this model celebrates the visionary inventor behind one of the world's most popular sports.