Chapter 533 - Sequence of Difficult Games 3 (1/2)

”I started playing basketball only in middle school and at that time I didn't know much about basketball basics, I was good at making mid-range shots and I scored a lot, but I didn't know how to make good passes and I didn't defend well.”

”I learned a lot of things in middle school and thanks to the help of some friends I managed to get two companies to sponsor me, I am a friend of the owners of these companies until today and so I managed to start dreaming of playing in the NBA.”

”After a few years of playing basketball and training a lot I realized that I had a lot of resistance, I always ran all these years as training to improve my resistance, so one day I thought about trying to run 40 km to see if I could do it.”

”After a few weeks of training I managed to run 40 km and I wanted to see if I could run 45 km, after a long time I did it too and so I wanted to know if I could run faster and in less time 45 km.”

”So I realized that I was able to run the distance of a marathon in very good time, but I was not sure if the time I set myself was right and I decided to run my first marathon, thinking only of completing the marathon.”

”I managed to enroll in the Chicago marathon and decided to run as fast as I could to get the best place in the marathon, in the end, I ended up winning and so I realized I had a talent for it.”

Jake told the story how it really happened that he started running marathons, of course, he really started running marathons because he had the system to help him and because of the system he knew he had a chance to run the marathon before even running.

Jay Leno and the people in the audience who didn't hear Jake tell this story elsewhere were impressed by this story, especially since Jake made it look like the things he did were easy to do.

After winning the first marathon I started wanting to run more marathons and when the time for the Olympics came I managed to qualify for the Olympics and then I won the marathon and won my first gold medal.”

”After winning this marathon I had more confidence and ran many other important marathons and was lucky to win all the marathons that I participated in after the Olympics.”

”This is really impressive, Jake, you said you started running after realizing that you had a lot of resistance in basketball training, you played basketball very well at North Carolina on the Tar Heels team as we all know.”

”And now you're playing well on the Los Angeles Lakers team at just 20 years old, what is it like for you to have basketball and still be a marathon runner?”

”As I said I love basketball since I was very young, I wanted to play to give my mom and me a better future, I was lucky to have friends and get sponsorship from a very early age.”

”I always trained a lot to be able to play well, I naturally was not always a skilled player, I had since I was a young talent to do mid-range shots and three-point shots, but even with my talent, I trained thousands of shots three points every week. ”

”To improve in defense and to get rebounds, to make assists I trained a lot and continued training to be a better player, I am very happy to see that this training paid off and that I am in the NBA and fulfilled one of my dreams.”

Jake finished speaking and was applauded again by the audience, Jake was a little embarrassed about it and Jay Leno continued the interview by asking some funny questions and saying fun things as he did well.

Jake also knew how to be funny and answered the questions in a funny way too, Jay Leno stopped the interview for the show's director to take the break and after that stop, Jay Leno finally started talking about the movie.

”Jake, last year you acted in your second film, this time as one of the main characters in the film, it is the film The Matrix that will open later this month, what did you think about acting in this film?”

”I was surprised at the invitation to participate in this great film with excellent actors, the directors Wachowskis invited me and I was very happy because I had only made a cameo in a film before.”

”I was very happy to participate in this film, I always enjoyed watching films and acting as well, I had some opportunities recording commercials and participating in the film Jerry Maguire, now I had the opportunity to participate in the film The Matrix.”

”It seems to be a great movie, in the last few weeks I received here on the show Keanu Reeves and Laurence Fishburne who talked about the film, but talk a little about the film.”

”This is the film about the world of the Matrix where things seem real, but they are not really, I don't know if I can talk about more things because I can give spoilers for the film, it's a film that has a great story, good characters, martial arts, science fiction and also excels in special effects.”