C.J. McCollum roasted Chandler Parsons with the most fiery of tweets

The Trail Blazers dropped the Grizzlies on Friday night, 112-109, and then Portland guard C.J. McCollum put a finishing move on Memphis forward Chandler Parsons from the top rope of Twitter. Here goes …

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The Blazers’ social media team, as it is wont to do, took a friendly jab at Parsons — a player Portland pursued in free agency — for his wildly errant 3-point attempt midway through the second quarter:

After the game, in which Parsons scored just eight points (albeit on 2-of-4 shooting from deep), the Grizzlies’ $94 million man fired a more accurate shot back at the Blazers — a barb that might’ve stung a little, since Portland remains on the outside looking in at a playoff picture that includes Memphis:

Then came McCollum with a flying elbow drop that landed so hard Parsons may never recover:

Ouch. That’s gonna leave a mark. Parsons received a max contract offer from the Blazers in free agency, but he chose the same four-year mega-deal from Memphis instead. Lingering knee issues kept Parsons from playing in all but six of the Grizzlies’ first 30 games, and he’s averaging a disappointing 6.7 points per game on 36.5 percent shooting since returning to the Memphis lineup in late December.

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Granted, Portland’s consolation prize for missing on Parsons in free agency was four years and $70 million worth of Evan Turner, whose healthy production of 9.4 points on 43 percent shooting hasn’t exactly been a winning ticket. Fittingly, it was Turner who tried to broker peace between the two sides:

But the damage had already been done. Chandler Parsons was roasted in a fire tweet by C.J. McCollum.

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Ben Rohrbach is a contributor for Ball Don’t Lie and Shutdown Corner on Yahoo Sports. Have a tip? Email him at rohrbach_ben@yahoo.com or follow him on Twitter! Follow @brohrbach