Chapter 478 - NBA Season Begins 2 (1/2)
”Are you sure it's $ 4 billion?”
”Of course I'm sure, you think I would be wrong talking about so much money, I know you will have a hard time buying all these shares, but in this moment of distrust of investors you may be able to buy these shares.”
”Okay, you can trust me and my team that we will be able to take care of everything before the stock price increases again, will this be your last investment? After all, you said you would sell the shares in 2000.”
”No, at the beginning of 2000 I will receive my profit share from Matthew's company and I will also receive again in a few months this year's money from the sponsors and the Los Angeles Lakers too.
”Until a few months after the beginning of the year, the shares will still appreciate a lot and soon after we will sell the shares, but at the beginning of 2000 we will have to make a strategy to sell all the shares at once, we have to do this so as not to break the market.”
Emily didn't know where Jake's confidence came from, but she learned to trust him, and if they really wanted to sell the shares, even if they lost some money from it or broke the stock market the most important thing was that they didn't lose money on it.
This was good for Emily because Jake said he would give her and the rest of the company a break as soon as they sold all of the shares, in addition, Emily would receive 1 percent of Jake's earnings from the sale of the shares.
This counted on the shares that Jake had and the money he would receive on the sale of Matthew's shares, that for Emily, who received a great salary to take care of Jake's companies, would be very good and would make her an even richer person.
After resolving all his affairs in the NBA, Jake was called to New York to vote on the deal that the players' association and team owners had proposed.
It was on January 10, a few days later than it normally would have been for what Jake remembered, it showed that he caused a small change in the events that should have happened with his game.
Jake went over there and saw several players and a climate of tension in the place of the vote, Jake didn't care much for what the sides said and voted for the deal to be accepted because he knew it would be accepted anyway.
Jake returned to Miami because the Los Angeles Lakers team had not yet asked him to return to training, Jake was prepared to start playing as soon as the deal was decided, and after a few weeks as it had originally been signed.
Jake said goodbye to Eva who was happier that Jake had spent many months at home this time, Jake would go to Los Angeles before the Los Angeles Lakers team had to call him.
Jake warned Coach Davis before that and he had already bought a house in Los Angeles to live with his family, meanwhile Jake was training on his own because currently, his training was so much easier.
Jake could feel that he was ready to compete in the Olympics that would be next year, and he wanted to compete to win all the disciplines that he would participate in, Jake knew that he would not get as much popularity in the NBA in the coming years with Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant on his team.
With Michael Jordan's retirement, many NBA fans who were already frustrated with the NBA blockade would stop watching the games, and even if they didn't stop watching the games they would not buy shirts and products from the teams they supported.
After a few years, the NBA would regain some of its popularity because more fans would have access to internet games and more fans would have money to buy shirts and sneakers that they couldn't before when the economy was weaker.
Jake knew there would never be a player like Michael Jordan, but many talented players like Shaquille O'Neal, Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Stephen Cury, and maybe even him, would make the NBA have several talented players and not just one who would rule.
Jake arrived in Los Angeles and went directly to the house he had bought a few months ago, arriving at his home in Bel Air he saw his house differently than when he bought it after the renovation he had done.
His house already had a house with the employees that he sent a trustworthy company to hire, had employees to clean the house, take care of the garden, take care of the swimming pool, sports facilities, to cook, and a housekeeper.
All these employees lived in one of the employee houses and the other employee house was occupied by Jake's security team, they would take care of the house's surveillance and his protection as well.