Chapter 155 An Exciting Final 2 (1/2)

”Thank you very much for the trust Clara, you have supported me a lot when I've been away from the team for almost two years, I will never forget that.”

”I already said that it was okay, Jake, you did several things for our companies at that time too, plus we were thinking about doing another commercial with you this year as the last one was a great success.”

”But after that record of 15 triple-double, you made we will again have free sponsorship from you for another year, for that money we could pay your sponsorship for another 2 years.”

Jake knew that this was probably true, after all just to pay the time on television of these commercials would already give that value, in addition, the propaganda that Jake would have succeeded as a basketball player was much bigger than in a commercial that everyone would know was false.

The companies of Tiffany and Clara were still developing the brand, even if their products were very good and they sold well many people did not even know that brand existed, and for a company to make the brand known was very important.

At least in the Miami area, Jake was well known and just as Jake was related to their companies for many years people would also remember the brands, Tiffany and Clara did not have the money to pay for millionaire sponsorship with NBA players, so Jake helped very corporately too.

”But that's not why I called you here, Jake, you do not have any agents and so some people came to talk to me about it, after all, everyone knows that our companies sponsor you.”

”They talked to you about what?”

”Representatives of the two companies came to talk to me because I wanted to be their sponsors as well.”

This time Jake had really been taken aback, he would never expect more companies to want to be his sponsors, he understood that in the beginning Clara's company only agreed to sponsor him because of Matthew's request.

After the Tiffany company saw that Jake was very intelligent and also Tiffany was a shareholder of Clara's company and so she also became his sponsor, he helped companies a little, but they already had a lot of capital and quality products and so developed quickly.

But Jake did not know why the two companies wanted to sponsor him too, after all by the way Clara said neither she nor Tiffany had recommended Jake to these companies.

”You do not have to think about it much Jake, you're very talented and now that you're over 1.88 m, I'm sure you can play in the NBA, especially after what you did this season.”

”Even if companies can not continue to pay you after you enter the NBA, they can say they sponsored you before you entered the NBA, and you still have 1 year in high school and a few more years in college.”

”These companies saw that you've been helping our companies a lot and not for a lot of money, they also saw your commercial on television, so it's no wonder they ate sponsoring you.”

”And I called you here to say that Tiffany and I have no problems if you want to work with these companies too, so that's it.”

”You can give them my phone number so if the conditions are good I can work with them.”

”Alright, I'll do it, then until the next Jake, we'll be in your final game.”

”Thank you for everything Clara.”

After that Jake went home, he never thought that more companies could sponsor him before the NBA, but it was good because he needed a lot of money before the year 2000 to invest and try to earn as much as possible by then.

After all, if he is going to be able to invest in the future, some company will depend on the money he makes in these investments, how he already knew how much he would make was not risky, but after that, he would not have such a good chance and risk.

After a few days, Clara said the two company representatives wanted to talk about the details of the sponsorship agreement with Jake on a few days at the restaurant where they last met.

Jake thought that the representatives of these companies would try to talk to him only after the national championship final, but he did not expect it to be so fast, yet he did not care about it, the sooner he could get the better money.

As Clara had to arrange this she scheduled lunch with the two company representatives at the same time, she thought that so Jake could end up with a bigger sponsorship of the two companies.

The next day Jake went to the restaurant again, the waiter took Jake to the table of business representatives, coming to the table Jake could see the two representatives, one of them was a fatter bearded man and looked more like a school teacher than a representative of a company.

The other was a tall man who appeared to be of Asian ancestors, he wore a suit and had glasses of the same brand as Joseph wore, the fatter representative was clearly uncomfortable with the difference between their appearance.

”Hi, nice to meet you, Jake, my name is John.”