Chapter 475 Basketball and Business 9

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.

Jake was sad to know that Kate would have to leave, but he understood and knew that soon he would be called to Los Angeles because the lockout was close to ending, besides, Jake knew that dating Kate he would have to get used to staying long periods of time away from it.

Kate had previously thought about making another musical album, but after the show at Jake's game she got a lot of invitations and was going to organize a tour of the world, her musical album had been made in 1998 and it was still recent, so it was better than she does the shows to get more fame and money.

After Kate left Jake decided to settle the deals he was late to do after his birthday, 1998 had ended and Matthew's company and Clara's company had finished the balance sheet and could pay shareholders for the profits they had.

But before Jake thought about going to Matthew's house to talk to him, Emily showed up at his home in Miami very excited to give reports on the earnings of Cisco's stock in 1998.

Jake knew why Emily was so excited because he remembered how the stock price had increased in 1998, in 1999 it would increase even more, and in 2000 when he sold the shares they would become billionaires.

"Hi, Emily, calm down a little and sit down first."

Emily was embarrassed to be more excited than Jake about this and sat on the sofa in Jake's living room, he poured Emily a glass of water that managed to compose herself to speak with Jake more calmly.

"I'm sorry, Jake, I was really excited, I was worried that the stock price might drop in the last year and that's why I was surprised."

"Okay, well, I understand your turmoil, I was also surprised at how much these stocks appreciated so much, I expected the stock price to increase, but not that much."

"That's why I told you to trust me, Emily, I know that many analysts are saying that it is dangerous and risky to invest in the current market situation and that we have billions of dollars invested, but for me, this is a calculated risk and the greater the risk the greater the gain."

"I trust you, but it is my job to check all the possibilities, now I will tell you first how your actions have appreciated."

"You have that year after investing in the last few years just over 659 million dollars, if next year the shares will appreciate like that again you can have more than 1 billion dollars."

Even though Jake already knew everything, he was still excited to know how much he had in shares, if the value of his shares in Matthew and Amazon's company were counted, Jake would have already invested 1 billion dollars.

That was why he decided to buy him a house and a car last year because he already had enough money to live on for a lifetime if he wanted to, plus he would make a lot more money in the next few years in the NBA.

Emily was a little disappointed to see how Jake was not as excited as she expected, Emily knew that Jake always knew he would earn a lot of money by investing in Cisco, but even she was excited knowing that she would earn 1 percent of that money that was currently 6 million dollars.

Emily didn't talk about the shares with her father anymore after he decided to sell his shares if her father continued to invest his shares they would be worth more than 3 times when he sold, but surely her father would know that in the future and would repent for a lifetime for giving up that opportunity.

"Matthew's shares also appreciated a lot and are now worth $ 2.5 billion, as our company has 10 percent of his shares as a commission we would receive $ 250 million if we sold those shares."

Jake was happy that Matthew's shares appreciated so much, Jake wanted Matthew to earn more from his shares than his company, but luckily Matthew's company was selling so much that Matthew earned more than $ 2.5 billion per year in profit sharing.

"Thanks for the report, Emily, you're doing a great job taking care of the company's investments, as soon as I receive my profit share in Matthew's company I'll invest more money in Cisco's shares, I think in the next few years we'll win much more money."

"If I didn't know you, I would think you are very greedy, but I saw how you donated $ 1 million to a charity."