<h4>Chapter 535 Sequence of Difficult Games 5</h4>


    The Pepsi representative and the people at the advertisingpany were satisfied with the photos and with Jake’s work that day, they had already worked with other artists who were much more annoying and had a lot of demands.


    Jake did everything the director of themercial told and worked for hours withoutining once and also did not make mistakes in themercials, David was also happy with that because Jake was building a good reputation among advertisingpanies and among sponsors.


    Thesepanies that sponsored Jake were bigpanies in the market that wasn’t even spending a lot of money on that sponsorship, so if they liked Jake and if they realized that the public was buying more of their product because of Jake they could renew the contracts throughout Jake’s career and paying a lot more.


    David knew that Jake was not pretending and that was his real personality which made his job with Jake so much easier, David knew he didn’t have to worry about Jake’s personal life because Jake was the type of person who wouldn’t bring problems.


    After Jake finished doing everything for the recording of themercial and the photos David reminded Jake that the next day of the next game Jake would have to record the nextmercial, David already told Jake that the nextmercial was with Chevrolet.


    So Jake can go back to his house and go to sleep because the Los Angeles Lakers team had a game the next day, then the day of the next game came and after a few hours, Jake went to the Great Western Forum.


    The game that day was against the Sacramento Kings team, the Sacramento Kings team had 11 wins and 17 losses before that game, Jake was worried about that game because in the first game the Los Angeles Lakers team was supposed to lose because of what Jake remembered his past life.


    In that game, the Los Angeles Lakers team also lost to the Sacramento Kings team because of what Jake remembered from his past life, that was the reason that Jake was very concerned in that game, in thest game if he didn’t try harder than normal to Lakers team would have lost again.


    Coach Rambis had to rece Shaquille O’Neal for a few minutes in that game as well so as not to risk Shaq having an injury, Jake and the other yers understood that, but it would be harder for the Los Angeles Lakers to win.


    At the beginning of the game, the Los Angeles Lakers team started pressing in the attack, Jake knew that in this game he would have to try harder for the Lakers team to win, even so, the Sacramento Kings team also pressed in attack and defense.


    The Sacramento Kings team had the second-best attack this season after the Los Angeles Lakers team, but luckily for the Los Angeles Lakers team, the Sacramento Kings team had the worst defense.


    In the first quarter, the game was well bnced and Rick Fox was ying very well in that game which helped the Los Angeles Lakers team to put more pressure on the defense, Dennis Rodman who had yed well in thest games was also helping on defense.


    On the Sacramento Kings team, there were Chris Webber, Corliss Williamson, and de Divac who were ying really well too and that was making things difficult for the Los Angeles Lakers team that was bad.


    At the end of the first quarter the Los Angeles Lakers team ended up winning with a big advantage in points, it seemed that if the Los Angeles Lakers team managed to keep the game bnced they would get the victory.


    In the second quarter the Sacramento Kings team started to press more in the attack because they knew they needed the victory, the Los Angeles Lakers team continued to press in the attack also because they knew that it was no use just defending against the Sacramento Kings team that had the second-best attack.


    Jake knew he would have to try harder in this game and so he started making some steals and blocks in the second quarter and that made things difficult for the Sacramento Kings team to attack, unfortunately, Jake couldn’t help much to defend because he had to defend against Jason Williams.


    So the game was very bnced again, but the Sacramento Kings team was losing the game by a big difference in points and the bnced game was not very useful for them in that game.


    So in the third quarter the Sacramento Kings team started to press hard in the attack and even try to press in the defense, Coach Rambis saw the advantage of the Los Angeles Lakers team and started to rece Shaq for longer and so the Sacramento Kings team also took advantage of that.


    The yers of the Los Angeles Lakers team were not ying very well in that third quarter and the Sacramento Kings team managed to greatly diminish the advantage, the yers of the Sacramento Kings team were also making ys far from where Jake was to avoid him who was the best yer in the defense in that game.


    So Jake can help by making several shots from three points and thus not letting the Sacramento Kings team tie, in thest quarter the Sacramento Kings team could not stand to press so hard in attack and defense and were more tired.


    The game was bnced again and the Los Angeles Lakers team was still winning and had the advantage in points, the game ended with the Los Angeles Lakers team achieving another victory in yet another difficult game.


    The Los Angeles Lakers team won the game with 118 points against 106 points from the Sacramento Kings team, in that game Jake was the highlight again and was apuded again by the fans of the Los Angeles Lakers team.


    In that game, Jake had 45 points, 11 assists, and 10 steals, getting another triple-double this season, Jake was happy that the Los Angeles Lakers team won another game they would normally have lost.


    Shaquille O’Neal did not y very well in that game even though he yed for only 31 minutes and scored 24 points, this was one of Shaq’s worst games this season and he was not very happy after the game ended.


    Kobe Bryant had a good game with 26 points and helped the team to win, Rick Fox also stood out in that game with 21 points, Dennis Rodman also helped the team with 9 rebounds.


    The next day the yers would have another day of rest and the coach Rambis even released the yers from the training that day after all the next two games would also be difficult, the Los Angeles Lakers team was in a sequence of difficult games.


    Jake was happy to have a rest day because he was going to record amercial for Chevrolet the next day and with that rest, he didn’t have to worry about training and could record themercial.


    The Gatorademercial had already started to run on the television stations and the Pepsimercial would also be ready soon, only the Adidasmercial had to take a while to go on the television stations because Jake’s sneakers had to be released together.


    Jake was close to bedtime when he got a call from his mom, Jake talked to Eva almost every day, but for the past few days, he knew she was busy organizing the new restaurant menu with Anna and so he decided not to. call her every day.


    Jake hadn’t realized it earlier because he thought Eva liked to get calls from him after his game was over, but in fact, there was a 3-hour time difference between Los Angeles and Miami.


    So when the game was over it was already veryte in Los Angeles and it was eventer in Miami, even in the morning Jake couldn’t call because when he woke up in Los Angeles it was the time that Eva had already entered the restaurant in Miami.


    "Hi, Jake, why haven’t you called me in the past few days? I was worried about you."


    "Sorry about that, mom, you said you were busy at the restaurant organizing the new menu with Anna and I know that when I call you it’s toote in Miami, so I decided not to call every day."


    "I’m d to hear that you care about me, Jake, but you should have warned me of this decision you made, I’ve been worried for the past few days waiting for you to call me."


    "Sorry, I was also busy recordingmercials and games and I didn’t think about it."


    "I called you to talk about it, you should have told me that you would be on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, you know I watch that show sometimes."


    "Fortunately I was lucky to have the television on that day when you participated in the program, but I couldn’t record it because there was no time, you also appeared in a Gatorademercial."


    "I wasn’t sure when the program was going to be on television, I also wanted to watch it, I’m going to order a tape recording the program for the broadcaster."


    Jake didn’t really remember very well if David had spoken when the show was on television, he also wanted to watch to see if he made a mistake when he was on the show.


    "Did you say you are recording a lot ofmercials? Whatmercials are you recording?"


    "I already recorded thismercial for Gatorade that you saw, I recorded amercial for Adidas and Pepsi, tomorrow I will record amercial for Chevrolet and in a few days I will record amercial for Gillette."


    "Now that you’ve told me that, I’m going to start watching more television in the next few days, so I’m going to watch themercials you recorded."


    Eva was proud to hear that Jake was going to record amercial for these bigpanies, Jake had already done many things that impress and make her proud, but Jake still had things that he did that still surprised Eva.


    "And you mom, tell me how is the new menu at the restaurant?"


    "It’s fine, Anna and I have changed the menupletely several times, so we are thinking of bringing to the menu some dishes that were sessful in the first years of the restaurant, we think that customers will like this."