Friends are Friends Forever Bobi's Show And Tobi Is Still Alive: Friends Friends Forever Bobi Show - Over the course of three years, two exchanges and 765 minutes together on the court, Tobias Harris and Boban Marjanovic forged the longest lasting friendship in the NBA.

Or did they?

"We don't have a relationship anymore," Harris said. "He replaced me with Luka Doncic."

After a moment, his face smiled, followed by a laugh.

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"The Bobi & Tobi Show" makes a special return on a Friday night return when the Dallas Mavericks visit the Philadelphia 76ers (ESPN and ESPN App, 8 p.m. ET). It will be their first game since Marjanovic signed with the Mavericks in July and the first game for Harris and Marjanovic as opponents since March 2016.

In between, they played together for the Detroit Pistons, were traded together to the LA Clippers, and then traded back to the Sixers. And although the two are more than 1,000 miles apart these days, the friendship that formed between them over their three seasons together as teammates on three different teams is still as strong as ever.

"Of course," said Marjanovic. "We may not be on the same team, but friends are still friends forever."

The two men said they still text and talk regularly, checking how each one is doing. Harris said he tries to keep Marjanovic's mood as his playing time fluctuates under coach Rick Carlisle. The 7-foot-4 reserve has played in only 11 of the Mavericks' 27 games after signing a two-year, $ 7 million contract this summer.

Marjanovic, meanwhile, monitors how Harris is playing in Philadelphia, where the 76ers have championship aspirations but enter Friday's game in fifth place in the Eastern Conference.

It's a new dynamic for the duo, who joined in the summer of 2016 when Marjanovic joined the Pistons on a three-year, $ 20 million contract with free agency. Harris had been traded to Detroit five months earlier, his third stop in his first five seasons in the NBA.

The two were friends during their year together in Detroit, but things changed forever when the Pistons included them in an exchange with the Clippers as part of a package to acquire Blake Griffin in January 2017.

"He had a family, he had his family, [so] you would finish the internship and go home," Marjanovic said about his friendship in Detroit. "But after they changed us, we became super good friends."

"We just had each other at the time ... We didn't have anyone else, and it worked for us."

While playing in the entertainment world capital, Harris and Marjanovic decided to do what so many friends in Los Angeles are trying to do: make their own television show.

They ended up filming three episodes of an internet series about their lives together in Los Angeles. The show was an instant hit with its fans and teammates alike.

"People really loved it," Harris said. "We liked that, too. We liked [other people] liked it."

"I thought he was great," said Mike Scott, who signed with the Clippers as a free agent in the summer of 2018 and instantly saw how close Harris and Marjanovic were. "Something nice to do off the court."

The show was quintessential Los Angeles. Marjanovic and Harris spent time in a SoulCycle studio, where Marjanovic led a class, before moving to a dance studio, where they both learned choreography together.

Time together created a bond that went beyond clowning and running pick-and-rolls.

"Once they were in the building, [their friendship] was not a fake thing," said Clippers coach Doc Rivers. "It was a real thing."

Their relationship strengthened when the two were traded to Philadelphia in February. After playing just 215 minutes together for their first two seasons as teammates, they shared 550 minutes of court time in 2018-19, including their first playoff action with the 76ers. With Joel Embiidsidelined for Game 3 of his first-round series against the Brooklyn Nets, Harris racked up 29 points and 16 rebounds; Marjanovic added 14-eight.

Little did they know that a month later, Kawhi Leonard's shot recovered to win Game 7 of the conference semifinals, the only 76ers game in the 2019 playoffs in which Marjanovic did not play, would end his time together. When Marjanovic signed with the Mavericks on July 23, he officially suspended the "Bobi and Tobi Show." But Harris insists it has not been canceled yet.

"Boban knows he's nothing without me, and I'm nothing without him," Harris said with a smile. "But hopefully in the summer we can do something where we can do some content together. The hope is to bring it back."

Before doing so, they will face each other for the first time in 1,388 days. Prior to the Mavs' trip to Philadelphia, where the 76ers are 14-1 this season, the two discussed more important things than basketball.

"He just called me and wanted to know if we were having dinner," Harris said with a smile. "I paused for a second, and he just starts shouting, 'No, you're having dinner!'

"Then I said, 'All right, I'm in.'"

Harris, the enthusiast of the two, will typically make the decision where they eat. In that case, however, it was referred to Marjanovic, who chose his favorite place in Philadelphia: Zahav, a modern Israeli restaurant.

"I used to go there every day," Harris said.

This preference for consistency could have arisen from a particular excursion in which Harris' gastronomic choice led Marjanovic to the wrong path.

"I took him somewhere and he got that pop," said Harris, "and start eating it. And, like 30 seconds later, he says, 'I'm going to the bathroom.'

"He goes in there, vomits this octopus, comes back and says, 'It's time for me to go.' ... He was so angry. He kept saying, 'You made me crazy to eat that octopus.'"

These moments sound familiar to anyone with lifelong friends. In this case, they also emphasize how the two men had to adapt to the weirdness of being separated and not seeing each other more and more.

"Yeah, it was kind of weird," Harris said. "This is my brother, so he was always good when we were together to play together, and obviously friendship off the court."

"He's a good guy and he's a good friend," Marjanovic said. "Nothing [more] changes. I changed cities, he stayed in it, but the friendship remains. I'm really happy for him."