Isiah Thomas told SI.com that he is "really hurt" over comments made by Magic Johnson in a new book.

"I'm really hurt, and I really feel taken advantage of for all these years," Thomas said. "I'm totally blindsided by this. Every time that I've seen Magic, he has been friendly with me. Whenever he came to a Knick game, he was standing in the tunnel [to the locker room] with me. He and [Knicks assistant coach] Herb [Williams] and I, we would go out to dinner in New York. I didn't know he felt this way."

The book, titled "When The Game Was Ours," is about the careers of Johnson and Larry Bird.

Johnson said his failed relationship with Thomas is "the biggest personal disappointment of my life ... nothing else is even close."

In the book, Johnson also claims that Thomas questioned his sexuality after he was diagnosed with HIV and retired in 1991.