Chapter 418 1998 ACC Tournant 6
The companies that sponsored Jake like Tiffany’s company and also Clara’s company had excellent sales in the last few days, many fans who liked the Tar Heels team, who liked Jake or who simply liked basketball started buying products that they knew had an endorsent contract with Jake.
These companies even renewed so agreents with television companies to show the comrcials that Jake had recorded again, this made the companies that had a verbal agreent with David happy to have continued and the other companies that were negotiating wanted a contract again.
Just as Jake had said before, if these companies really wanted a new deal with Jake they would have to pay twice what the deal was a few weeks ago, they had to pay $ 2 million a year for a maximum of 4 years.
Naturally, these companies questioned why the contract hadn’t even started and so companies that agreed earlier would only pay half of what they did, but David didn’t care.
After the Tar Heels team won the ACC tournant David had a new respect for Jake and thought he could get things done faster than he thought, maybe in another month the Tar Heels team would break that record and win the NCAA tournant again.
When that happened, Jake’s NBA contract as a rookie would have to be even better, when these companies saw that David was decided they decided to wait a little longer, if Jake won the NCAA tournant maybe that new contract would really be worth it.
The company that most regretted was the one that broke the verbal contract with David on impulse, they could wait until they were close to the NBA draft to break that verbal contract, they didn’t have to be so quick, because of that the situation was more complicated now.
What disappointed David was that Nike had not yet responded to the deal he had asked Jake for, it was the $ 52 million deal for a 5-year contract and another 4 percent of the profit for Jake-related shoes that were sold.
It was really a very demanding contract for a novice player, but it was a bet that they would have to make if they wanted to get a contract with Jake, even though they knew that Adidas was interested and could steal another player as they did with Kobe Bryant it seed like the Nike had no interest in paying that much.
The good news was that Adidas had sent an official agreent that they had accepted Jake’s requests, so David knew that he couldn’t go any further and had to close a verbal agreent with Adidas.
David would get 10 percent anyway so he had no reason to care that Nike had lost an excellent contract again, David knew that Jake was resting before the next ga, but that was an important decision and Jake had to decide.
"Hi, Jake, so I received a final proposal from Adidas to make a verbal agreent, they accepted your requests, Nike has not yet answered whether it would accept or not."
Jake was also disappointed with Nike just like David, he knew that in the future Nike would be the biggest sports shoe company, but Jake didn’t really need the sponsorship money to earn his inco.
So he just wanted a contract that paid what he knew it was worth, that contract might seem like a lot of money to a newbie, but Jake had a deal to play in the Lakers and in the next few years he could win 3 NBA title.
If that happened, Nike would have a new player who was NBA champion 3 tis, for Adidas, it was even better because they also sponsored Kobe Bryant and so the main Lakers players would not be sponsored by Nike.
"You can accept the deal, David, we showed goodwill and Nike was not interested, we are going to have a good deal with Adidas that has always shown interest and respect."
With Jake having decided David soon sent a ssage to Adidas that Jake accepted the deal, there was little ti left for the end of the season and the Tar Heels team could even win the NCAA tournant and thus it was difficult for that contract to be canceled.
The companies that had made a deal for Jake paying $ 1 million a year for 4 years would be very happy if Jake won an NBA title with the Lakers, and even if those companies agreed to pay $ 2 million they would be happy.
The dia continued to talk about the Tar Heels team and about Jake and about the record they could break in the next gas, this was to get the attention of basketball fans who did not follow college basketball gas.
But with the attention that the dia paid and seeing that it was Michael Jordan’s team and with Jake’s incredible performance this season, basketball fans started to beco interested in watching the Tar Heels team’s gas.
anwhile, the Tar Heels team was having training after two days of rest before the next ga that would be the next day, Coach Guthridge can relax seeing that the players seed to be rested after that rest.
He knew how intense and tiring the ga against the Duke team had been in the final, especially after a 3-ga streak in 3 straight days, so the Tar Heels team did light training to regain the ga and the next day he had to hope that the players would perform well.
So soon the ga day arrived and the Tar Heels team went to travel to where the next gas would play, the next ga would be against the Navy Midshipn team, the Navy Midshipn team was good and was having a good season.
But the Patriot conference teams were not very good and so Coach Guthridge expected an easier ga if he could he wanted to let the starting players rest for the next gas.
After all, they were already at the end of the season and the Tar Heels team had a lot of gas that season, he said this to Jake who soon understood what Coach Guthridge ant and would play at a slower pace.
The first two gas of the Tar Heels team, if they won, would be at the Hartford Civic Center in Hartford, Connecticut, the players of the Tar Heels team hoped to win that ga and were, therefore, more confident after winning the ACC tournant.
"Welco to everyone who ca to watch this first ga of the NCAA tournant, the Tar Heels team is the favorite to win this ga after winning the ACC tournant in an excellent ga against the Duke team."
"But the pressure to get a good result can get in the way of the Tar Heels team players in that ga, the opponent of that ga the Navy Midshipn team also wants the victory to advance further in the NCAA tournant."
"That’s right, I believe that the Tar Heels team will win this ga, they are favorites to win the NCAA tournant again this season and with Jake and Jamison playing so well I find it hard to imagine this team losing."
"So I think that if the Tar Heels team players perform well in that ga, victory is practically guaranteed."
Just as comntators said everyone thought this victory was almost certain for the Tar Heels team, so early on in the ga the Tar Heels team started to press forward with Jake trying to attack at a slower pace of play.
The defense of Team Tar Heels was also firm to prevent the Navy Midshipn team from attacking so that Coach Guthridge could let the players rest for a while.
So whenever the defense of the Navy Midshipn team didn’t defend against him Jake would soon try a three-point shot, so in the middle of the 1st half of the ga Jake had already scored 12 points in the ga, the opponents thought that the Tar Heels team would start slowly at Jake’s slow pace, but soon they had a big lead on the scoreboard.
So for the remainder of the 1st half, the defense players of the Navy Midshipn team had to defend more against Jake which gave him space to pass the ball to his teammates.
Coach Guthridge was very pleased with Jake’s performance because he had more freedom to replace the players in the 1st half, it seed that Ed Cota and Makhtar N’Diaye were also playing well which made things easier for Coach Guthridge.
At the end of the 1st half of the ga, the Tar Heels team was winning with a good advantage in the ga even though the coach Guthridge was putting the substitute players to play too, so the players of the Navy Midshipn team started to get discouraged.
In that 1st half of the ga, Jake played for 20 minutes and had 19 points, 5 assists, 6 rebounds, and 4 steals, with Jamison leaving the ga for a few minutes Jake could pick up more rebounds and also scored a lot of points in that 1st half of the ga.
"Thus ends the 1st half of the ga and the Tar Heels team has dominated this ga and has been winning easily with the great performance of Jake and also of the entire Tar Heels team, Jamison scored 10 points and played only 11 minutes in that 1st half of ga."
"Clearly the Tar Heels team is easily winning that ga and coach Guthridge seed to be thinking of saving players for the next ga since the middle of the 1st half, with Jake’s good performance he played the 20 minutes in the 1st half of the ga."
"Coach Guthridge seems to have confidence in his players and knows that Jake has the strength to play all 40 minutes of the ga, after all, Jake played the 40 minutes in all 3 ACC tournant gas that were three days in a row."
"It’s true, I find it difficult for the Navy Midshipn team to still win the ga, but we will have to follow the 2nd half to see if the Tar Heels team can win another ga."
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