Can’t we all just get along?

Years after competing against each other on the court, Isiah Thomas and Magic Johnson are in the middle of a heated feud.

Is it 1992 or 2009? I mean seriously, fellas.

In a new book Johnson wrote with Larry Bird, the Lakers point guard says he played a role in keeping Thomas off the 1992 Dream Team.

“Isiah killed his own chances when it came to the Olympics,” Johnson said in the book. “Nobody on that team wanted to play with him. … I’m sad for Isiah. He has alienated so many people in his life, and he still doesn’t get it. He doesn’t understand why he wasn’t chosen for that Olympic team and that’s really too bad. You should be aware when you’ve ticked off more than half of the NBA.”

Thomas has long had a history of being disliked in NBA locker rooms, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that nobody wanted to play with him.

But to hear it from a guy who had such a public relationship with Thomas, including exchanging kisses before the 1988 NBA Finals, has to hurt.

“I’m just disappointed and hurt,” Thomas told The Associated Press on Thursday. “I never thought it was him who kept me off the Olympic team. That hurt.”

This is what happens when you’re a jerk to people, Zeke.

On Thursday’s Pardon the Interruption, Boston Globe reporter Jackie MacMullan, who helped write the book with the two NBA legends, discussed the feud.

For fans of Magic Johnson and Larry Bird, HBO is working on a documentary about the rival between these two basketball legends.

The HBO project will trace the competition between the two superstars from their days at Michigan State and Indiana State all the way through their intense battles in the NBA Finals.

Sorry LeBron and Kobe, but those two have nothing on Bird and Magic during the prime in the ’80s.

We might never see a rivalry of this intensity that started in college ever again, and hopefully this project will illustrate how talented both players were.

Who did you think was better: Larry or Magic?

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