Depicts a hand sinking ball in the basket and the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics logo, the country name above.

Basketball is played by two teams of five players on a rectangular court, aiming to shoot a ball through a hoop 18 inches in diameter and 10 feet high. Invented in December 1891 by Canadian Dr. James Naismith at the YMCA in Springfield, Massachusetts, the game was created to keep students active indoors. Naismith nailed a peach basket to a 10-foot elevated track and wrote the basic rules, calling the game "Basket Ball." Initially, the basket had a bottom, requiring manual retrieval of the ball, which was later removed for efficiency. The original game used a soccer ball, and dribbling was not part of it until the 1950s, when ball manufacturing improved.

Basketball has been a men's sport in the Summer Olympics since 1936 and a women's sport since 1976. The United States is the most successful country in Olympic basketball, with men's teams winning 14 out of 17 tournaments and women's teams winning 7 out of 9.

Numerical denomination and date surrounded by geometric patterns and Southern Cross.

Crux is a constellation located in the southern sky in a bright portion of the Milky Way, and is the smallest but one of the most distinctive of the 88 modern constellations. Its name is Latin for cross, and it is dominated by a cross-shaped or kite-like asterism that is commonly known as the Southern Cross.