Here's The Actual Basketball From The Cover Of NBA Jam
by Luke Plunkett on Kotaku, shared by Barry Petchesky from Deadspin > Sports News Without Fear, Favor or Compromise on (#43G29)
The iconic cover to NBA Jam, with its image of a logo-adorned basketball smashing through some paper, is not an illustration. It's a photo, and this is the model, 25 years later.