C.J. McCollum offered up the perfect comeback to a homophobic troll on Twitter
Following a breakout season that saw him win Most Improved Player and help lead the Portland Trail Blazers to a surprise playoff run, C.J. McCollum inked a four-year extension worth $106 million. Needless to say, he doesn't really have time anymore for people who say dumb things to him on Twitter, as one unlucky person found out.
On Sunday night, a user named Richie made a dumb insinuation about McCollum's fondness for manicures:
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McCollum wasn't having it, obviously, and felt compelled to remind Richie exactly how much his new contract is worth and why the criticism is irrelevant:
I can give you 106million reasons why I'm heading down the right trail https://t.co/rqNItlTDAe
— CJ McCollum (@CJMcCollum) August 15, 2016
And, of course, once you get a retweet from a professional athlete, your mentions get filled up with people calling you out for attacking him. Richie found that out and tried to play it off as a joke.
Yooo all these replies to McCollums tweet are hysterical 😂
— Richie (@RichieTags) August 15, 2016
That's the best way to play it after you get owned on the internet by someone much richer and more famous than you for a dumb comment. But that's exactly what it was: a dumb comment. If McCollum wants to treat himself to a mani-pedi, he shouldn't have to apologize or explain himself to a random Twitter user who subscribes to outdated notions of masculinity.
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