An orange-colored basketball. Originally intended to display as a basketball and a hoop, as per previous designs by Google, Samsung, and Microsoft.
This emoji can be sent on Facebook Messenger to unlock a hidden basketball game.
Basketball was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 under the name “Basketball and Hoop” and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.
U+1F3C0
? Basketball and hoop