Chapter 467 Basketball and Business 1
But Jake didn’t want to wait that long to talk to his mom, so when Jake saw that Eva was still awake he went over to the couch where she was and just took off the suit he was wearing to get more comfortable with his dress shirt.
\"Hi, mom, I didn’t know you were going to stay up until this hour.\"
\"I was waiting for you, I knew you wouldn’t belong in coming back.\"
\"I see, it’s good that you’re awake because I have so good news to tell you.\"
\"Tell then.\"
\"As I said to you, I went to dinner with Kate today, and at that dinner, I finally took courage and asked Kate to date , and luckily she accepted.\"
\"This is very good, Jake, I’m happy for you.\"
Eva hoped it could be sothing like this when she saw that Jake was so happy after going on a date with Kate, in fact, Eva hoped that Jake had already started dating Kate long before and maybe he hadn’t told her because of so much of tis they went out together.
Just as she said to Jake, Eva was happy to know that he was finally dating the woman he loved, but she also couldn’t help feeling sorry for Lola who had now lost all chances of ever dating Jake.
Of course, Eva knew that Jake was not to bla for this and he was having a lot of consideration because of Lola, Eva knew Jake and knew that he wanted to take Kate to her restaurant soday, but maybe he would never do that because he had respect for Lola.
Eva also couldn’t help but like Kate who seed a very independent and intelligent woman and also who really liked Jake, after all, she t Jake before he was an NBA basketball player and when he was not very famous.
\"So, Mom, I was wondering if I could invite Kate over for dinner so you could et, she always wanted to et you, but here is the only place where you can et.\"
\"Of course, Jake, I would love for you to bring your girlfriend here, I also wanted to et Kate.\"
\"This is great, as soon as I sort out the details of the ga, we arrange this dinner here at ho, so you and I can prepare so special dishes and surprise Kate with better food than the restaurants we went to, Hahaha.\"
After that busy day, Jake can sleep peacefully and happily, the next day Jake woke up very early to go to his daily training, after a few weeks in that training Jake was no longer tired running the 45 km of the marathon or even in the 10 training sessions. thousand ters and 5,000 ters.
Coach David said this was a good thing because it showed that his resistance was improving and his muscles were gaining more strength with this new training after the Olympics Coach Davis was sure that they could improve this training even more.
Today Jake was not going to et Kate because he wanted to give Kate a day to get used to the fact that they were dating, after all even though Jake was inexperienced Kate was even more so because Jake was her first boyfriend.
So Jake planned to rest for the rest of the day, it was good for him to rest his body and mind sotis, from ti to ti Jake called to talk to Larry Page and Sergey Brin, they talked about technology and the future of the internet and they talked too about the Google company that the two had.
Jake had already beco friends with them and they both knew that Jake was a millionaire NBA player and also a marathon runner who won the gold dal at an Olympics, so they knew he was able to invest in their company if he was interested.
They didn’t know that Jake was a partner with Jeff Bezos on Amazon and also that he had money invested in the Cisco company, Jake wouldn’t say that either, and he just wanted to remind both of them that he was interested in the company, so when he invested a few million they wouldn’t be surprised very.
While Jake was resting he got a call from Davis Falk, Jake thought it was ti for David to get him to rent the Miami Arena, so Jake could start talking to broadcasters before December.
\"Jake, I have good news for you, I was able to rent the Miami Arena for December 17th, I was late because I negotiated a lot with them saying this was a charity ga and I was able to rent for 40 thousand dollars for a day all.\"
Jake was very happy with this, he hoped it would cost a lot more than that, after all, it was for a whole day and he knew that before he went back to the past so rich people rented big arenas for 100 thousand dollars or more.
\"Thank you very much, David, with this I can finally call to confirm with the players and already buy tickets and organize the hotel for all of them, now I just have to call the stations with the number you gave .\"
\"Good luck with that, I’m sorry, but I’m not going to be able to help with your ga anymore, but I know that you will be able to make a good ga.\"
\"Okay David, thanks for all the help you gave , I hope the ga you are going to organize will be a success too.\"
Now that Jake already had the Miami Arena confird he could call the players again, he called all 17 other players and said the missing details, he said where the ga would be and the day and also said he would have Adidas and other companies as sponsors.
So the players who didn’t expect that much from the ga was much more excited and realized that Jake really wanted to make a great ga as was the NBA gas, Jake also said he would talk to the television stations to broadcast the gas.
When the players confird again Jake asked Emily to send one of her assistants to contact the hotel and make reservations and buy tickets as well, Jake talked to the players and they agreed to co to Miami 3 days before the ga to make a training between teams to play better.
And they were leaving the day after the ga, so Jake had to book the rooms in a 5-star hotel for 5 days, and as he said that would be more expensive than renting the Miami Arena, to pay everyone’s airfare and for 5 days of the 5-star hotel would be almost $ 40,000.
Still, Jake didn’t care about that because he had raised $ 250,000 in sponsorship for the ga, so the sponsorship money would still go to the charity even after paying all the costs.
Jake sought to hire so NBA referees for that ga and succeeded easily, he also paid for a team that organized events to help the stadium team to take care of parking, ga day sales and all the red tape.
With that, everything was fine for the ga and Jake was just waiting for Kate’s call saying whether or not she could sing on the day of the ga after that Jake would call the broadcasters with much more confidence in getting a lot of money for a charity.
After a few hours Kate called saying she would sing on Jake’s ga day, she would sing the national anthem and two songs at break ti, Jake thought it was great and thanked Kate because he knew that her manager would not easily agree thereby.
With everything he needed to be confird Jake started calling the broadcasters, Jake already had three broadcasters that he thought could buy the rights to that broadcast, Jake called CBS, ABC, and NBC first because he wanted millions of people could watch that ga.
But the three broadcasters did not seem very interested in this ga because they were new players and it was not like the All-Stars that naturally attracted the public, moreover, most players had not even debuted in the NBA.
But because they didn’t have any gas to transmit and also because the inco was for a charity, they made a proposal, but it was a really bad proposal that Jake thought they shouldn’t even have offered.
So Jake ended the contact with these stations and did not even say that Kate would sing during the ga break and before the ga the national anthem, so after thinking a bit Jake decided to call TNT.
He already had a good friendship with this broadcaster and knew that in the future they would be one of the big broadcasters that broadcast NBA gas in the future, in addition, they had problems with the audience and had a lot of money too.
In addition, they already had contact with the NBA because they showed the NBA drafts every year when Jake told the representatives that David had passed the number they soon beca interested in the ga.
\"It will be a charity ga organized by in Miami, it will be a ga among NBA newbies, most of them are players who haven’t even debuted in the NBA like , and there are so players who ca from last season’s draft.\"
Then Jake said the nas of all the players who were going to participate and also that the ga would take place at the Miami Arena, unlike what happened at other stations, the TNT representative seed really interested in the ga.
Realizing this Jake also said that Kate would be on the day of the ga singing the national anthem before the ga and at halfti, Jake also told the sponsors of that ga and that they could try to contact them to get their comrcial to appear on the interval of that ga.
After hearing everything Jake had organized, the TNT representative realized that Jake already had a lot of influence in the NBA and also among businessn even before his debut in the NBA, as it was a benefit ga, even if it did not attract a lot of audiences it would be good for the company’s image.
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