Chapter 468 Basketball and Business 2
\"Jake, we are really interested in broadcasting this ga, but before that I will have to have a brief eting to find out if we have free ti to broadcast this ga on December 17th, if everything goes well I will call you in a few minutes.\"
\"Okay, I’ll be waiting.\"
Jake was very confident that this ti he would get the sponsorship because the TNT representative seed genuinely interested in buying the ga broadcast, as this money was for charity Jake didn’t mind receiving less than he expected, but he wouldn’t accept either with the other three broadcasters offered.
After almost an hour waiting for the TNT representative to finally call again, Jake had already thought of a value that might be acceptable, in the future a common NBA ga would be worth an average of 6 million dollars to be broadcast by a broadcaster, Jake wanted a lot less than that.
\"Jake, I talked to the directors of the broadcaster and we have ti to broadcast the ga on December 17th, are we really interested in broadcasting this ga, but just to make it clear, will we have the exclusivity to broadcast this ga?\"
\"Of course, we just want fans to see this ga and also help a charity, you can even say that the inco you paid for the ga also goes to the charity, the costs of the ga are already paid by the sponsors.\"
\"This is great, so we want to buy the broadcast of this ga, as it is for a charity we are thinking of buying for 1 million dollars, what do you think of that?\"
\"I think it’s a good value, the charity that receives this will thank you, so we have an agreent, I will send one of my assistants to send the signed contract to you.\"
\"Okay, we hope it’s a good ga.\"
Jake was really happy with the amount he got for that ga, it was even more than he expected to get and thinking about inflation it was a value very close to what would be paid in the future for a normal ga.
Jake was very happy to have managed to set everything up for the ga he decided to do on a whim, he wanted to set this ga closer to the date they were on, but Jake knew that so players were not yet in perfect physical condition to play 48 minutes.
But even though it was almost 1 month before the day of the ga Jake was already excited to know that he could play with his friends, Jake asked Emily to send her assistants to solve the last details of the ga and he returned to his normal routine.
Jake had already done the most difficult and with the teams, he hired to organize events the rest would be organized, Jake called Kate to tell her the good news first because his mother was still at the restaurant.
\"Kate, luckily everything went well and I managed to organize everything for the ga on December 17th, it will be broadcast on TNT.\"
\"How great, Jake, I was hoping that everything would work out, you already know which charity you are going to donate that money to?\"
\"I am thinking of an institution that I have already donated before and went there with my mother, it is an institution that helps children with cancer, it helps mainly needy families who cannot afford treatnt.\"
\"That’s great Jake, I’m sure a lot of people can be helped with that money.\"
\"I also hope, that I wanted to ask if you need any help with the show that you are going to do on ga day? If you have any equipnt, dancers, clothes, or anything needed for the show, you can tell . \"
\"I don’t need many things, I have my dancers and my team that helps with my shows, but I will need equipnt and so things for the show, after all, it will have to be organized quickly at the break.\"
\"Can you tell a company that takes care of that and I’m going to hire them to organize it all.\"
Jake also told Kate that she would not be able to do a stage to sing and she and the dancers would have to perform on the court, Kate said she understood this and so they talked about more subjects of the show, Jake used the knowledge he had at other events like this to talk to Kate.
So the doubts she had about how she was going to do a show at the break were resolved and it would also help when she had to talk to the companies that would organize the equipnt for the show.
After talking to Kate, Jake had to call the other players again to tell them about the good news, everyone was happy to know that the ga would be broadcast on TNT, Jake even said that he offered it to other companies that didn’t offer fair value and the players agreed with it.
Jake didn’t know, but in doing so he gained more respect from all the players he invited to this ga, after all, Jake was a novice player who was playing on the Los Angeles Lakers team and was not afraid to organize a ga like this that could be misinterpreted by team owners.
The night when Eva ca ho Jake said excitedly to her that he had managed to organize everything for the ga and that everything had worked out, Eva was very happy also because she knew how Jake was committed to it and was dedicating himself to organize this ga.
Even more because Jake was still training every day with Coach Davis, even though Jake was tired less than he used to be, he still got tired a good part of the day when he did the marathon and 10,000 ters training.
After that the days passed quickly and Jake continued with his routine, he continued to go out with Kate as many tis as he left before they started dating, but after they started dating they had dates in more private places where they could kiss.
By the end of November, the preparations for the ga were complete and TNT started making comrcials between programs announcing the ga on December 17, it was also announced that Kate would sing in this ga in which the NBA rookies would play.
At the sa ti, tickets began to be sold in the Miami area, tickets costing between $ 50 and $ 200, for a ga that was a special event it was cheap and $ 200 was the cabins and best seats.
Jake did this because they had raised more than $ 2.1 million for charity with the money Jake would personally donate, so the value of the tickets would not increase that much.
Even so, if all the tickets were sold they would collect over 1.2 million dollars, Jake also thought that maybe Kate fans could buy the tickets to watch her sing two songs on match day.
That month the college basketball gas had also started, and to Jake’s happiness, the Tar Heels team had yet to miss a ga this new season just as it did in Jake’s past life.
If this continued so they could get closer to the UCLA team record, Jake had heard that Vince Carter was at university studying and helping the basketball team while training to be ready for when the NBA arrived.
If Jake didn’t have so many things to do these months he could have done it too, luckily for Jake he was almost graduated and just needed to attend classes when the Los Angeles Lakers team was out of season to get his diploma.
The problem was that when other commitnts arose for Jake at that ti he would not have ti to take classes to get his diploma, Jake thought that when the film The Matrix ca out and was a success the continuation of the film would be approved and maybe the Wachowskis would want to make the recordings with Jake in those months that the Los Angeles Lakers team didn’t have gas.
With the end of the month has arrived, Jake decided it was ti to make dinner at his house and invite Kate, so Kate could finally et his mother, Jake was taking a while because they started dating very recently.
But Kate even talked about the tis she wanted to et Eva and Jake had already talked about it with his mom, so it was ti for them to talk to his mom so they could prepare this special dinner for Kate.
\"Mom, I think the ti has co to prepare that dinner so Kate and you can finally et and talk, she talks about you always and you also said that you wanted to et my girlfriend.\"
\"Okay, Jake, if you think this is the right ti we can do this weekend, what do you think?\"
\"I think it’s a good idea, let’s prepare a great dinner for Kate, with you and cooking she will be in for a surprise.\"
\"Hahaha, you cook better than Jake, if only you cook it will be even better, but since you want it I will also make so dishes that are praised in the restaurant.\"
Jake wasn’t kidding when he said that he intended to surprise Kate with this dinner, he cooked better than so chefs, especially now that he had gained more system agility and thus he had more skill with his hands.
And Eva’s restaurant was always packed and was praised by all the city’s food critics, so it wasn’t wrong to say that with Jake and Eva cooking they could make dishes better than so restaurants.
The other day Jake had another date with Kate where he took her to an amusent park, after that date he told her that they would have dinner at his house at the end of the week and just as Jake expected Kate was very happy to know about that.
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