Chapter 173 New Game Style 2 (1/2)

For Jake they did not even have to ask, it was obvious that he would fit into a strong team and would play as a starter in everyone's mind after they asked more sensitive questions as if someone would become a pro.

When they entered high school all they hoped was to play at university and stop playing after graduating, but after winning the national championship and being able to win for the second time some began to dream.

Harrison and Carter had already decided to stop after college but David was still in doubt, he knew he could play well, so maybe after another five years when the university finished he had a chance to enter the NBA.

Or he could even play professionally in other countries in Europe, the important thing was that he loved basketball and wanted to be professional, Mark always thought about stopping playing after finishing university.

Before, he never doubted he would stop playing, but now he was 1.92 in height and still growing, and last year he had made great games and received invitations to chat with college coaches who were considered strong in basketball.

So he began to think just like his friends that could become a pro, playing in the NBA did not seem difficult now, just like David he would leave to decide in a few more years, again no one even needed to hear from Jake to know that he could be a professional.

After that everyone left and Jake got up to pay the bill, Lucas had stayed behind because he wanted to talk to Jake privately, after Jake paid and left Lucas came over to talk to him.

”Hi, Lucas, what happened to you waiting for me here?”

”I was a little embarrassed to speak in front of others, but I want you to know that I started playing after seeing you playing in the national high school championship final in your last year that you won.”

”Before I even played, but as I was very small I did not think I had a chance and I even thought about moving to another sport.”

”But I saw you playing very well and even being one of the smallest of the team, so I thought I might as well now I ended up growing up and I was lucky to start before I could play now.”

”Cool to know about this Lucas, I hope you keep playing well this way.”

”I'm going, I want our team to continue winning even after you graduate, and Nathan is also very much your fan, but he's very shy and will not have the guts to say, I'm going to go bye.”

After hearing this Jake was very happy, it is good to know that new players started playing inspired by him, even more, players like Lucas and Nathan who were so skillful.

The next day Jake asked Oliver to help him buy a new car and also get some cell phones for him, it was important to have this so he could talk to his mother even if the signal in town was not very good yet.

Jake was still waiting for Emily to organize the reports on how his investments were going these last few years, Jake wanted to invest again, after all, that was when he could make more money.

At that time the computers were still not much used, mainly because it was difficult to save and to show the recorded data, so Emily was still doing everything at hand in some reports.

Jake was still doing his training almost every day at the school's training grounds, as it was a little over a month before the Chicago marathon he would have to start preparing for the race.

After a few months running 50km almost every day his body was much more prepared and his stamina had increased a bit too, so it was time to increase the intensity of training.

First Jake started running 10km in 35 minutes, yet after the end of the training day he was not quite married even though he had run 50km in 175 minutes, so he went running 10km in 30 minutes which would be enough for him. he wins a race of less difficulty.

But when he was about 38 km Jake started to tire and saw that he could not so he ate a bar of stamina and regained his energy as much as he relaxed his muscles a little, so he can run the 50 km in 150 minutes.

With that time he could win the race and his muscles were not hurting after the race, Jake already hoped he could not run the 42.195 without eating the stamina bar, but he got quite close to it.