Chapter 475 - Basketball and Business 9 (1/2)

The game ended and all the players enjoyed this game very much, even the players of the blue team who lost, the fans who paid for tickets were also happy with the high-level game they were able to see.

TNT was also happy with the game and with the audience record, Kate's show also made the station's directors happy, Kate was very happy because everyone liked her presentation, and Jake and Anna's mother was also happy that Jake's team won the game.

In a game where the money would be raised for charity, it was normal for everyone to enjoy the game and be happy with what happened, the players even did interviews with TNT reporters talking about their expectations for the next NBA season.

Jake did not give interviews and after saying goodbye to the players left for the house after meeting Eva and Anna inside the Arena, Jake wanted to meet Kate, but he knew the paparazzi were waiting for this to start the rumors.

The players would still stay another day in Miami and Jake had agreed to have lunch with all 17 players he invited, everyone was happy with the result of that game, and the next day Jake would announce in a newspaper all the amounts that were collected for that game.

It would be reported the costs of the game, and the travel and lodging of the players and the money received by the sponsors and TNT, the money from the ticket sales and the additional 1 million dollars that Jake would donate, in total 3 million and 325 thousand were collected dollars that would be donated to the institution that cared for children with cancer that Jake had visited.

The other day Jake woke up happy with the result of the game he organized, many fans of the sport and the sports media were surprised with the income that this game raised for charity and also with the additional donation of 1 million dollars from Jake.

This took away any suspicion that Jake was thinking of making this game thinking about making money or having another type of win, Jake had published all the values ​​involved in this game and even made an audit to anyone suspicious of him.

So the other players had even more respect for Jake and many basketball fans became fans of Jake who was being a generous person at that time when the NBA was involved in a lockout that was a fight between the players and the team owners for seeing who could make the most money.

Jake had lunch with the players and everyone became more friends after that, Jake was sad to have to say goodbye to his friends Vince, Antawn and Tim Duncan, because he knew they would meet again as rivals in the NBA.

Jake said goodbye to the players and went to meet Kate, he can't speak to her on the day of the game and I really wanted to congratulate her for the excellent show and her success that was praised after singing the national anthem.

”Hi, Kate, congratulations on the success of your performance yesterday, you sang the national anthem very well and you were also great singing your songs at break time, I was watching in secret.”

”Thanks, Jake, I saw you watching when I sang the first song, I was really happy that everyone liked it, thanks for inviting me.”

”I am the one who thanks you, you suggested that you could participate and I could never imagine that there would be a great singer like you singing in the game, it helped a lot to increase the audience and made this game more memorable.”

”Congratulations on the success of the game too, I watched almost the entire game and I was happy to see your team win, I also saw in the newspaper your donation to the charity, you deserved to be successful for your generosity.”

”I had already made a donation to this institution and had promised to donate again, fortunately with this game, the opportunity arose for me to fulfill my promise, I hope this donation helps the children.”

Kate was even more impressed by Jake's generosity for making this donation, she knew several basketball players and very few players thought so much about helping charity, even the highest-paid ones didn't think about doing it.

Jake and Kate talked for a while longer and then Jake returned home, a few days after Jake's game, he had another game with much better-known players in the NBA, but because the game would be broadcast by subscription and the players said they wanted to be part of the game. income before the game, this game was not as successful as the newbie game that Jake organized.

The end of the year passed quickly and Kate spent the Christmas parties at Jake's house and they felt more like family, so in January Jake had a simple celebration of his 20th birthday.

Only Kate, Anna and some of Jake's friends were invited, and as the party was in Miami everyone was able to go, Clara, Tiffany, Joseph, Oliver, Matthew, and a few others went, Eva was very happy that Jake could spend the birthday in the home that year.

After his birthday, Kate told Jake that she would have to end her vacation, which was too long, it was almost 4 months of vacation and if it weren't for her participation in Jake's game, her label would have called to complain.