L.A. Clippers big man Boban Marjanovic and small forward Tobias Harris are best friends, both on and off the court. However, according to Harris, Marjanovic didn't like him the first time they met in Detroit.
Boban Marjanovic signed a multi-year contract with the Detroit Pistons back in 2016. Tobias Harris was on the Pistons and was looking forward to meeting and getting to know his new big teammate.
That's when Marjanovic revealed to Harris that he wasn't fond of the scoring small forward. Per Kalen Jones of Sports Illustrated:
Tobias Harris fondly remembers the first time he met Boban Marjanovic. During the 2016 offseason, Marjanovic signed with the Pistons, to whom Harris had been traded during the previous season. The subsequent encounter, as he describes, was rather forthright.
“Boban comes up to me and tells me he doesn’t really like me,” Harris says during a phone interview, “because he thinks that when he played against me I was a cocky player or whatever. So I was like, ‘Dang. He don’t like me.’”
On the other end of the line, Marjanovic bursts into laughter. He says he didn’t really mean it.
“I hope that he forgives me one day,” he adds, still chuckling.
Tobias Harris and Boban Marjanovic were traded to the Clippers in 2018 in the Blake Griffin deal. Since arriving in Los Angeles, the two players have become one of the best teammate duos in the league in terms of their overall chemistry. They are always posting funny videos on Snapchat and they now have their own YouTube show.
Marjanovic, who stands at 7-foot-3, is averaging 8.6 points and 5.7 rebounds per game this season while shooting 63.0 percent from the field. He has become a fan favorite in Los Angeles. Harris, meanwhile, is having a career year so far. The 26-year-old is posting 20.7 points, 8.7 rebounds, and 1.9 assists per game. Harris will become an unrestricted free agent in the summer of 2019.
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