Chapter 452 - Jake Vacations 4 (1/2)

Jake was thinking that this running pace was good for his new training, if he could run 50 km a day at that running pace he would definitely feel like he was training for real.

But listening to Coach Davis saying that Jake thought it was true, he didn't know when he could train like that again and it was a good way for him to find out what his limit was after winning so many physical stats.

After the marathon, they would train the 10,000 meters and the 5,000 meters also already thinking about winning the Olympics, so Jake would not have time to further improve his pace of running the marathons.

If Jake could even manage to run in less than 2 hours he would be very happy and feel that he had realized a dream, after all that was one of the main goals for Jake in the future.

And Jake knew that he was really close to achieving this if he slowed down just 2 seconds per km in his running time he would be able to achieve that dream even if it was not official.

Shortly after Jake decided this and arranged with trainer Davis Jake came home to rest and got a surprise, Adidas representative Mike Morris had come to visit him in Miami.

Jake had told Mike to send some of their products like clothes, sneakers so that Jake could actually advertise the company as he was very well paid to do, Coach Davis had also warned Mike that Jake was going to run the Chicago marathon.

But he never expected Mike to appear in Miami at his house, especially since there were no NBA games going on and Jake was training for the Chicago marathon while on his vacation.

In fact, while Jake was in Australia, a lot of things happened in the United States and in the sports world, mainly because it was confirmed that Jake Smith would play on the Los Angeles Lakers team with Kobe Bryant who was another young NBA genius at that time and Shaquille O'Neal.

But after Jake went to Australia it was revealed that Jake had signed one of the biggest shoe contracts with Adidas, many thought Jake would sign with Nike and that was surprising to many, especially since Adidas had already managed to hire Kobe Bryant with another multi-million dollar contract.

Luckily the values ​​of the contract were not revealed because of the efficiency of the representatives of Adidas and David Falk, for sure in a few more months the values ​​of the negotiation would be revealed.

But that was what they wanted because when everyone forgot about this story in a few months when the values ​​are revealed to Adidas it would be news again, Jake's other contracts were also surprising making him one of the highest-paid players in the NBA since his first season.

But not all of this was good for Adidas and other companies, normally Jake would have already done a commercial campaign or a television commercial for Adidas and these other companies, but as NBA lockout the companies thought wisely that it would not be a good idea to do something like that.

But Jake knew through David Falk and that it was confirmed by Mike that Adidas was preparing a great marketing strategy and a product line with his brand for the next few years, Jake even had the idea for sneakers and decided to use his brand. to avoid having copyright issues in the future with Adidas.

Jake learned that Adidas was already making a shoe that would be his trademark with Adidas, there would be two shoes, one for basketball and one for running, the running shoe would be called Adidas JKS Velocity, and the basketball shoe would only be Adidas JKS 1.

The sneakers would be black with blue and purple details, the two sneakers were almost the same and very beautiful, but one was for elite runners in marathons and the other was for playing basketball or just walking with them on the street.

Jake had the number 7 of the shirt that was his favorite and would be his brand in the NBA, so Adidas would make a jacket with Jake's brand called Adidas JKS 7, Jake wore the number 7 by his own choice in the Tar Heels team and would use the same number on the Los Angeles Lakers team.

After all, the shirt 7 he wore on the Tar Heels team had been retired and he wanted to continue wearing it on the next teams he played, Jake was happy with his two sneakers and hoped they would sell well.

”Sorry for coming to see you, Jake, but I needed to talk to you and I took advantage of the fact that I had to deliver some Adidas products and brought them to you.”

”It's okay, Mike, I appreciate you bringing the products to me.”

Jake asked Mike to enter his house and also helped to carry the boxes he had brought, inside one of the boxes he had the sneakers he had ordered, in the 90s among the best-selling sneakers most were from Nike and few were from Adidas.