That was quickly followed by a car emoji from J.J. Reddick and we were off like gangbusters. But in an interview with Ben & Skin on KRLD-FM 105.3, Parsons said the plane tweet had absolutely nothing to do with DeAndre Jordan. He was flying, but not to further woo DeAndre. The pertinent part, transcribed by the Dallas Morning News, via Ball Don't Lie:✈️
— Chandler Parsons (@ChandlerParsons) July 8, 2015
I loved the emojis during all of that, and then everybody started jumping on that and there were emojis everywhere — did you enjoy all that, or was it too stressful to enjoy it?
I mean, sure, maybe that happened. Maybe he went to Vegas for his girlfriend's birthday. Or maybe this is the equivalent of the good ol' "I'm not even mad, actually I think it's pretty funny" response people give to seem unfazed when they actually are pissed as hell and don't actually think anything in the world is funny.Parsons was the point man in the Dallas effort to land Jordan in the first place—"wooing and partying with Jordan for weeks in an elaborate, "Entourage"-style recruiting trip through the hottest clubs and most exclusive haunts in Los Angeles and Houston."—so he surely felt salty about the whole ordeal, but he says he has no hard feelings. And he's never deleted that tweet.Parsons: You know what's funny? Actually, when I tweeted that plane emoji, I was leaving LA and going to Vegas for my girlfriend's birthday. I wasn't even going to Houston. I didn't even think about it initially, then it started blowing up, and obviously the timing of it was perfect and then it just kind of took off with J.J. [Redick] tweeting the car and [Chris Paul] and everybody — I saw the Dodgers, the Warriors, Kobe, MJ, everybody started tweeting it so that was more funny than ever. At that point, it was already over and he was going back to the Clippers, so might as well make light of it.