<h4>Chapter 382 Continuing the Winning Streak 6</h4>
Knowing this David Falk understood what Jake was saying, he didn’t need to make sponsorship money because he could get rich otherwise, so he had better focus on the best contracts than getting any contracts for him.
"I get that Jake, so you just want the most lucrative contracts, it helps me a lot because I can deny many smallerpanies."
"Yes, tellpanies I only ept a contract of up to 4 years, and it has to be worth over $ 1 million a year, if they think it’s not worth it, say I win with twopanies endorsements $ 3 million, gives more than $ 1 million a year and I signed this contract in 1996."
David Falk was going to say that Jake was asking a lot for an athlete who was debuting in the NBA, but after hearing that Jake currently earns more than $ 3 million a year he understood why Jake didn’t want bad contracts.
"I understand, I’m going to say that topanies, and to the shoepany, which one do you prefer to sign with?"
"Just like I said before with Nike, but I want a $ 52 million contract for 5 years, if they think it’s too much, say you’re going to talk to Adidas, name Kobe Bryant that received almost $ 8 million a year from his contract."
"Nike hated losing the endorsement with Kobe Bryant a few years ago, and I managed to win an NCAA title and won some individual awards, so you might get a deal with them."
David Falk naturally knew these negotiating tactics and how he had many years of contact with Nike and everyone knew of his good talent vision, so maybe Nike would ept this deal that David had no doubt would be profitable for Nike.
But David was really surprised at how Jake had already thought of these negotiating techniques, so he could understand why Jake was able to earn over $ 100 million in a few years because he was talented at negotiating.
"I want to ask you to try to do something for me, David."
"You can tell what it is."
"I want you to try to make a deal with one of the NBA teams so they can trade some yers for a draft pick, so I can go to that team in my debut season."
"This is very hard to get Jake, you’re very good and you’re sure to be a star in a few years, but it’s a big risk for a team to bet on a rookie, especially when we don’t even know if that team will choose you."
"I know, but I’m asking you to just try, I want to y on the Lakers team and they already have a history of doing something like that."
"It will be very difficult, they risked a lot to do that with Kobe Bryant, and in this team, you are not going to be the main yer, you better stay as the main yer of a weaker team for a few years and then go to a winning team when I have more experience."
"I’m asking you to just try, I know Lakers general manager Jerry West dreams of having an offensive trio to get the Lakers to win an NBA title, they already have Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O’Neal with me on the team. they will achieve that."
"Tell him that with me on the team I guarantee they will win 3 NBA titles over the next 4 years, and negotiate a contract for me that allows me to lose some running marathon games so my sry may be lower."
"It will be a good marketing move for the Lakers and they will save on sries, I know they want to hire Glen Rice for a sry that will be over 5 million dors a year, I can do better than him for 5 million dors in 3 years."
David thought it would be very difficult to negotiate with the Lakers for such a contract, and even though David did not know that the Lakers intended to hire Glen Rice, he also thought it was very dangerous for Jake to guarantee that he could win 3 NBA title in 4 years.
Few yers have been able to do that in all of history and the Chicago Bulls team have been able to do that because they had Michael Jordan and many other good yers, Jake could be a star and a very good yer, but he could notpare with Michael Jordan.
But David felt it was just worth trying to talk to Jerry West about it, Jerry West had already done it with Kobe Bryant and it worked and he really wanted a team with 3 talented attacking yers.
It was much better to bet on Jake who was good for team marketing and was very talented and spend a few million dors than hiring an older yer who might not stay long on the team if it worked the merit would be all his and the team The Lakers really needed a talented PG.
Since Magic Johnson retired, the team has not had such a talented yer in position, and Jake had a simr ying style to Magic Johnson and could make the Lakers team win games again.
With that in mind, David thought it might be quite possible that Jerry West would decide to risk hiring Jake for the team, so he would have perhaps the best NBA team paying the lowest wages.
After that David left to try to get Jake’s endorsement deals, and he would also take the opportunity to try to make a deal with Jerry West, if Jake really joined the Lakers and managed to win an NBA title in the years he stays there he will be one of the most important yers in the NBA even being a novice.
If he could win an NBA title it would be worth having a low sry and spending a few years not being his team’s main yer, after that contract was over Jake could go to another team where he would be the main yer and could win many NBA title.
After talking to David about what he wanted to do when he joined the NBA, Jake could refocus on his training with the basketball team as well as the races for the next uing marathon.
After thest game that was not very good in the yers’ view, they put a lot of effort into training before the next game, the yers were under a lot of pressure because of the great winning streak.
Even though Coach Guthridge was under great pressure because of this winning streak, everyone had already forgotten that he wasn’t even the team’s official coach and was just recing Coach Smith until the Tar Heels team hired another.
Coach Guthridge no longer had to worry about whether Tar Heels would have a good season after switching coach, but how long they would be able to keep up this sequence of many games without losing.
For that, Coach Guthridge had Jake and Jamison who were the best yers of the Tar Heels team, especially he would need Jake who was certainly the main responsible for the team to achieve this.
Jake had already warned that he would have to run a marathon soon and so would lose a team game, Coach Guthridge had agreed to that and knew that Jake running the marathons was what helped him get so much resistance to y the 40 minutes in all the games.
But with this team pressure to maintain the winning streak if the Tar Heels team continues to win until Jake has to lose this game to run the marathon will be the most difficult game of the Tar Heels team.
Everyone trusts Jake and a game without him on the team would be apletely different game, and if the Tar Heels team lost that game the whole team would me Jake for that defeat because he would not have participated in that game.
That’s why Coach Guthridge tried to change Jake’s mind, but Jake didn’t change his mind and was still convinced to run this marathon in Tokyo, the reason being that maybe this was Jake’sst chance to participate in this marathon.
Always in February, there would be NBA games, and Jake wasn’t sure if he would get a deal with an NBA team that would allow him to miss some marathon games.
Jake found this point of endurance and agility very important to him when it was so difficult to get opportunities to improve his stats, so even if the Tar Heels fans started to loathe him, Jake would still run in this marathon.
If Tar Heels won the NCAA title, the fans would forget that they had lost that record because of Jake, and that would even leave yers with much less pressure to continue winning all games.
So soon the day of the next game of the Tar Heels team came, it would be a home game at the Dean Smith Center and so yers were more rxed with today’s game after training for several days yers were eager to perform well in this game.
The opponent of this game was the Florida State team that the Tar Heels team had already defeated this season, which was an even bigger reason for the yers to be able to be more rxed for this game even with all the pressure for the team He Tar to win this game.
"Wee to everyone who is following this match between ACC conference teams, this is the second match between these teams and it is also an important match because of the great unbeaten sequence of games of team Tar Heels."
"Because of this even being a home game at the Dean Smith Center, the pressure of the need for victory can affect the Tar Heels yers."