--- title: Space Jam: Blake Griffin Stars in Footlocker Commercial description: The original super team (or rather super villains), Space Jam's Monstars, are back and badder than ever in Foot Locker's latest commercial. canonical: https://time.com/4589066/blake-griffin-space-jam-foot-locker/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-12-02T17:43:44.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:39:08.846Z og:title: Watch Blake Griffin Take on Space Jam's Monstars in New Foot Locker Ad og:description: The original super team (or rather super villains), Space Jam's Monstars, are back and badder than ever in Foot Locker's latest commercial. og:url: https://time.com/4589066/blake-griffin-space-jam-foot-locker/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Blake Griffin Take on Space Jam's Monstars in New Foot Locker Ad twitter:description: The original super team (or rather super villains), Space Jam's Monstars, are back and badder than ever in Foot Locker's latest commercial. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Blake Griffin Take on _Space Jam'_s Monstars in this Throwback Foot Locker Ad  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Dec 2, 2016 5:43 PM UTC  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Dec 2, 2016 5:43 PM UTC Move over, [Warriors](http://time.com/4351966/golden-state-warriors-nba-city-thunder/). The original [super team](http://time.com/4392677/kevin-durant-golden-state-warriors-nba/) (or rather super villains), [_Space Jam’s_ Monstars](http://time.com/4570270/space-jam-anniversary/), are back and badder than ever in [Foot Locker’s latest commercial](http://time.com/4573216/tom-brady-mocks-deflategate-commercial/) for Jordan brand. In the clip, a young basketball team faces the notorious Monstars, who are dominating basketball courts once again. Luckily, the youngsters conveniently find a Foot Locker across the street, where Bugs Bunny supplies them with the gear to eventually defeat the Monstars — although a lot of that might also have to do with the fact that a Toon Squad jersey-clad Blake Griffin shows up to help the kids on the court and swap witticisms with Bugs. Jimmy Butler also makes a nice cameo as the tale’s narrator, but Griffin’s comic performance in the brief makes a strong case for the Clippers player to be the star of the long-rumored _Space Jam_ sequel. Although [LeBron James is the rumored favorite](http://time.com/4315000/space-jam-reboot-lebron-james/) to take over the franchise, the original star of _Space Jam_, Michael Jordan, has [gone on record saying that he thinks Griffin would be a fitting successor](https://www.instagram.com/p/BIl%5FQZaDsYo/). Consider this Griffin’s official bid for the sequel and watch the full clip below. > [](https://twitter.com/Jumpman23/status/804284668866502657) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4589066/blake-griffin-space-jam-foot-locker/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4589066/blake-griffin-space-jam-foot-locker/"},"headline":"Watch Blake Griffin Take on Space Jam's Monstars in this Throwback Foot Locker Ad","datePublished":"2016-12-02T17:43:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:39:08.846Z","description":"The original super team (or rather super villains), Space Jam's Monstars, are back and badder than ever in Foot Locker's latest commercial.","url":"https://time.com/4589066/blake-griffin-space-jam-foot-locker/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","Basketball","Sports topic","NBA","Culture"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4589066/blake-griffin-space-jam-foot-locker/","name":"Watch Blake Griffin Take on Space Jam's Monstars in this Throwback Foot Locker Ad"}}]}] ```