--- title: Jimmy Fallon Plays Basketball With Ice Cube, Blake Griffin description: Jimmy Fallon showed up even NBA star Blake Griffin during a game of basketball with Griffin and Ice Cube, using random items. canonical: https://time.com/4663787/jimmy-fallon-blake-griffin-ice-cube-the-tonight-show/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-02-08T18:27:52.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:40:55.929Z og:title: Watch Jimmy Fallon Out-Shoot Blake Griffin and Ice Cube og:description: Swish! og:url: https://time.com/4663787/jimmy-fallon-blake-griffin-ice-cube-the-tonight-show/ 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 Jimmy Fallon Out-Shoot Blake Griffin and Ice Cube twitter:description: Swish! twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Jimmy Fallon Out-Do Blake Griffin and Ice Cube at Basketball > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Feb 8, 2017 6:27 PM UTC  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Feb 8, 2017 6:27 PM UTC [Jimmy Fallon](http://time.com/4622161/jimmy-fallon-laughing/) showed off some serious game when he challenged [NBA star Blake Griffin](http://time.com/4589066/blake-griffin-space-jam-foot-locker/) and [rapper Ice Cube](http://time.com/3989041/ice-cube-straight-outta-compton-bye-felicia-ghostwriting/) to a game of Random Object Shootout, which is exactly what it sounds like — shooting random objects into a basketball hoop. Sounds easy enough, but the objects that they had to use in lieu of an actual basketball proved to be a little tricky: three mini balls glued together, cheesecake, antique clocks from Fallon’s grandmother, and a vase full of roses. While Griffin sank the cheesecake no problem, Fallon turned out to be the big winner of the night, successfully shooting the mini balls and the vase of roses into the hoop. 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