Magic Johnson blasts Isiah Thomas in new book; Isiah 'hurt'

Isiah Thomas is firing back over criticisms levied by longtime "friend" Magic Johnson in a new book chronicling the careers of Johnson and Larry Bird, and boy, are things getting ugly. It's like an episode of "The Hills," except, unfortunately, there's a lot more leg showing. Shudder."I'm really hurt, and I really feel taken advantage of for all these years," Thomas told Ian Thomsen at SI.com on Thursday. "I'm totally blindsided by this. Every time that I've seen Magic, he has been friendly with me."As you can see in the photo above, the two Hall of Famers were once portrayed as having one of the NBA's tightest "bromances," dating back to when they kissed each other before the start of a 1988 NBA Finals game and their crowdpleasing 1-on-1 battle in the final moments of the 1992 NBA All-Star Game.But in Johnson's new book, "When The Game Was Ours" — co-written with Bird and author Jackie Ma...