Good morning, sports fans. Maybe someday the little boys will learn to play nice.

Lately it has been very hard to read the newspapers or turn on the television and not hear about the growing feud between Los Angeles Lakers’ Shaquille O’Neal and Kobe Bryant.

I understand that in this I, I, me, me society of sports today, and more specifically professional basketball, that all of the players want their names to be in the headlines.

But there is a time and place for everything, and sometimes players have to sacrifice their own personal talents to help out the team.

Just ask Scottie Pippen. This guy in his prime could have been the go-to guy for any other team in the league, but took the back seat to Michael, to help the Chicago Bulls win six rings.

I realize Pippen complained and moaned half of the time, but when it came right down to it, he stepped back.

So, I wonder how can these two players be arguing with each other? I know that not everyone can get along with each other all the time. But come on. These two are getting paid to play a kid’s game.

It just seems as if there aren’t enough basketballs in the gym for these guys.

They both want to be the man on the Lakers, and that can’t happen if they don’t stop acting like children and start acting like men.

Honestly, I think that these two players individually are in the top two or three at their positions. But together they are like oil and water. They just don’t mix.

As for Bryant, he has the advantage in the battle because he is one of the guys that can get Shaq the ball. And more times than not he is too selfish and would rather force a shot than get the ball to the post, and let O’Neal dominate somebody.

While O’Neal is the one the fans want to see dunk the ball, he is not bashful about telling anyone who will listen that it’s what he wants to do. And Kobe isn’t in those plans.

Maybe Lakers head coach Phil Jackson should lock these two in a room and let them fight it out. But he’d rather have them read a book on how they should be nice to one another.

To tell you the truth, I don’t care what he does to solve the problem. I just wish he would do something soon, because it is disgusting to see these two men that have so much talent act like little boys.