bhwS

by Cr0w0019

this is a fanfic of a bhwS book i read with a little bit of things edited to make it better

47. Chapter 47

Sequence of Difficult Games

Kobe tried to defend in that play and tried to recover after being tricked by the feint, but Iverson had already played with players who were much better than Kobe in defense and he knew how to take advantage of the opportunities.

Jake was watching this and wondering if he could do better than Kobe in defense, Jake knew he could prevent Iverson from making some attacks, but Allen Iverson was playing very well in that game and would still score a lot.

In another move Jake started to organize the attack for the Los Angeles Lakers team, Jake advanced with the ball and passed to Rick on the left, Rick received the ball and held it a little before passing to Kobe on the right.

Kobe received the ball and Iverson came in to press on defense, Iverson realized that Kobe was playing well in that game and he also had to press on defense to keep Kobe from scoring too many points.

Kobe tried to deceive Iverson with a feint, but Iverson was not deceived and kept pressing in defense, Kobe tried another move doing a crossover, but Iverson kept pressing in defense.

So Kobe decided to pass the ball to Jake further back, Jake received the ball and took advantage that Snow was away from him, Jake tried a shot from outside to make 3 more points for the Los Angeles Lakers team.

Jake was playing well trying to win in that game, but the Philadelphia 76ers team started to press on defense, even though Jake was having a hard time attacking, the other players on the Los Angeles Lakers team were also having a hard time attacking.

So the Philadelphia 76ers team ended the second quarter by winning the game with an even greater advantage in points, Allen Iverson continued to be the highlight of the team scoring more points than Jake in that quarter too.

In the third quarter, the Philadelphia 76ers team started to put more pressure on the defense and not attacking as much, when Shaq was replaced, the Philadelphia 76ers team attacked more with Geiger and all the players of the Philadelphia 76ers team also tied when the Los Angeles Lakers team defense was concentrated in Iverson.

The game ended with the Philadelphia 76ers taking the win by making 103 points against 98 points of the Los Angeles Lakers team, in that game Jake played for 48 minutes and made 35 points, 10 assists, 8 rebounds, and 9 steals.

"The game ends with the victory of the Philadelphia 76ers team, this was the second defeat of the Los Angeles Lakers team this season in this excellent game that we had, thus ending the sequence of 20 victories that the Los Angeles Lakers team had."

"This was the fourth-longest winning streak for a team in NBA history, and the Los Angeles Lakers team has the longest winning streak with a streak of 33 wins, the most interesting thing is that Jake just left university with a straight incredible of victories also playing in the Tar Heels team."

"This is certainly not a coincidence and shows the skill of Jake Smith who is currently the best player of the NBA season, in this game Jake played very well with 35 points and 10 assists."

"The players of the Los Angeles Lakers team played well in that game, but the Philadelphia 76ers team played much better and defended better, which was very important for this victory."

"Allen Iverson was the star of that game with 41 points and 10 assists, this was one of the few games where we saw a player performing better than Jake, so the Philadelphia 76ers team managed to defeat the Los Angeles Lakers."

"Now the Philadelphia 76ers team will be more excited to continue winning this NBA season and the Los Angeles Lakers team continues with the streak of games as a visitor that is being tired for the players."

The players of the Los Angeles Lakers team were saddened by this defeat, they realized that they could win the game if they played a little better, especially Shaq who was replaced, of course, they were professional players and knew that losing was normal in the NBA.

Everyone expected that the Los Angeles Lakers team would lose at some point and that's why the Lakers' winning streak was so impressive, Coach Rambis was not so upset about it because he knew he had to replace Shaq in that game.

The one who was most upset and saddened by this victory was Kobe because Jake had talked to him before the game to ask that he could defend against Allen Iverson in that game and Kobe refused to say that he could defend well.

At the end of this game Allen Iverson had 41 points and 10 assists, even though Kobe was struggling in defense he was unable to defend well against Iverson who was playing very well in that game, Jake realized this and called Kobe to talk.

"I know what you're thinking, Kobe, you don't have to worry about the 41 points that Allen Iverson made in that game, I wanted to defend against him because I have more resistance and I knew he would be able to play many minutes."

"But even I don't think I would be able to stop Iverson from scoring a lot, he was playing very well in that game and you don't have to worry about that."

Kobe knew that Jake was just trying to cheer him up and that probably Jake would have defended better in that game and the Los Angeles Lakers team could have won, in fact, if Jake hadn't asked to defend against Iverson before the game Kobe wouldn't have cared so much about the 41 points from Iverson.

Jake didn't know that, but Kobe already thought that if in another game Jake asked to defend against a player, Kobe would stop not risking regret after the game, besides, Kobe was grateful that Jake only talked to him about it and not with Coach Rambis.

After the game was over, players traveled to Orlando, Florida, which was where the next game would be, players arrived in Orlando and went to the hotel that was chosen by the team directors.

The next day the players would have a rest day in which they would not even have the training to be able to rest more before the next game, after all in the past game Shaq had to be replaced in order not to get tired anymore.

Kobe and the other players of the Los Angeles Lakers team were professional players and had already accepted the last defeat and were already thinking about the next game, Jake was even more relaxed because he knew the team would lose even without him playing.

The next day the players used the day to rest before the next game, Jake was very close to Miami and Eva had even called asking if he wanted her to go to the game, but Jake knew that this trip would tire his mother and her I would have to close the restaurant for 2 days to watch that game.

So Jake told Eva not to worry and just watch the most important playoff games if she could close the restaurant for a few days, after all, Jake also wanted Anna to go to his games with Eva.

So soon the day of the game arrived, the players went to the Orlando Arena where the next game would take place, this was the first game of the Los Angeles Lakers team this season against the Orlando Magic team.

The Orlando Magic team was very well this season with 18 wins and 7 losses in 25 games, another interesting thing in this game was that Michael Olowokandi who would be the first pick of the draft in which Jake participated had been chosen by the Orlando Magic team.

Michael Olowokandi had been chosen as the twelfth pick and that naturally changed his status in the NBA and the Orlando Magic team where he couldn't even play as many minutes as he normally would in Los Angeles Clippers team.

Of course, Michael Olowokandi did not know this would happen and many in the sports media said that choosing Michael Olowokandi as a first pick had been a big mistake, with this change Michael Olowokandi could even have a longer NBA career this time around.

The game started with the Los Angeles Lakers team pressing in the attack, even playing as a visitor the Lakers team wanted to win this game after losing the last game, this was something that the Orlando Magic team did not expect and so the Los Angeles Lakers team ended the first quarter winning.

Shaquille O'Neal would play much longer in this game after resting and he was playing very well, Kobe Bryant was also playing very well to forget the previous game, Rick Fox was not playing so well again.

Dennis Rodman was back on the team and was not playing as well as before, but Coach Rambis took the opportunity to let Robert Horry rest in that game and Horry would play for less time in that game.

With the strong attack of the Los Angeles Lakers team they managed to win this game making 129 points against 100 points of the Orlando Magic team, Jake made in that game 32 points 15 assists and 11 steals making another triple-double.

Shaq also played very well and scored 31 points and had 13 rebounds, Kobe also had one of his best performances of the season and scored 38 points in that game showing that he was one of the best SG in the NBA today.

Only Jake, Shaq and Kobe scored 101 points out of the team's 129 points showing why they were the most important players for the Los Angeles Lakers team to win, this victory left players excited again for the next games.

After that game the players traveled to Dallas, Texas where the Los Angeles Lakers team would play the last game in that sequence of games as a visitor, the players arrived in Dallas and went to the hotel to rest.

This time the players would have no day off and the next day they would play again, so it was expected that coach Rambis would let the main players rest for a few minutes during the game.

The next day the players went to Reunion Arena to play against the Dallas Mavericks team that was not doing well this NBA season despite having two of Jake's NBA idols who were Steve Nash and Dirk Nowitzki.

As the Dallas Mavericks team was not doing very well this season, the players of the Los Angeles Lakers team were more relaxed in this next game, everyone wanted to win this game and end this sequence of games as a visitor.

Dennis Rodman would be playing that game again and Coach Rambis decided to let Robert Horry rest in that game and Travis Knight would start playing, in the first quarter the Los Angeles Lakers team started pressing in the attack.

The Dallas Mavericks team also started to put pressure on the attack and to the surprise of the Los Angeles Lakers team, the Dallas Mavericks team started the game very well, so they started to focus more on the game.

At the end of the first quarter, the Dallas Mavericks team was winning the game with a small points advantage, coach Rambis intended to let Shaq and Kobe rest for many minutes in that game, but seeing the first quarter of the team he changed his mind because he didn't want another one defeat.

In the second quarter the Los Angeles Lakers team played much better and started to put a lot of pressure on the attack, Dennis Rodman was also playing well, getting a lot of rebounds in that game and helping in defense.

So the Los Angeles Lakers team ended the second quarter by winning, in the third quarter the Los Angeles Lakers team pressed again in the attack and Coach Rambis even started to replace Shaq and Kobe.

The game ended with the Los Angeles Lakers team winning the game with 109 points against 89 points for the Dallas Mavericks team, in that game Jake played very well again and had 31 points and 12 assists.

Shaq had a good game even playing for less time and had 25 points and Kobe Bryant had 21 points, Dennis Rodman returned to make a good game with 17 rebounds which helped the Los Angeles Lakers team to achieve this victory.

After this victory, the players, the medical team, and the coach Rambis were very happy because of the victory, but also because the Los Angeles Lakers' game sequence as a visitor had ended.

The players were in better physical condition than the medical team expected and Jake surprised again by being able to play for 48 minutes in those 6 games after Jake played those 6 games they were sure he could play the rest of the season.

After the game the players returned to Los Angeles and could sleep at their house for the next few days, now the Los Angeles Lakers team would have a sequence of 4 games at home and so the players would not tire so much.

The next day the Lakers team would also have no game and so the players could rest and do just a quick training, Jake returned to his house after leaving for almost two weeks and was happy to be back.

Jake had a lot of fun living in the dormitories at the university with his friends, but it was different when he lived in a house that was his, Jake just missed living with his mother in Miami.

But Jake knew it wasn't going to happen because he always needed to travel to the games and needed to live in the places where his team was, and Eva had her restaurant and Jake knew that his mother was happy making her dream come true.

The other day Jake woke up rested and happy to be home, as soon as he woke up he got a call from David that he was waiting for, Jake just thought David would call later.

"Hi, David, how are you?"

"I'm fine, Jake, congratulations on the Los Angeles Lakers team's victories, you've only lost two games this season and everyone in the sports media is saying that your team can win the NBA title."

"I hope that happens, but we still have a lot of games this season and then we have the playoffs where anything can happen."

"You are right, keep training and playing well so your team will be in the playoffs and can win the games in the playoffs."

"I'm going to speak because I called you, I know you said you didn't want to participate in this, but the directors the Wachowskis asked you to participate in an interview program to talk about the film."

"I said I didn't want to participate in this, David, I'm very busy with training and games, besides, I said that I think it is better that only the main actors participate in the promotion of the film, my character is not that important."

"I know," said Jake, but it was actually a request for an interview program, the main actors already promoted the film that month, but one of the stations called the Wachowskis to say they wanted to interview you. "

"Your story is very interesting, Jake, you are only 20 years old and you are already one of the highlights of the Los Angeles Lakers team, you have won a gold medal in the Olympics and won several marathons."

"The talk shows are interested in players who participate in films, especially if you have an interesting story like that and are participating in a really big film."

"Also, the film you participated in will soon open, so this is a good time to make people watching the interview program curious to watch the film in which you participate."

Jake did not expect an interview program to invite him to participate, he knew that the best basketball players participated in these programs, but they were players like Dennis Rodman who always pleased the audience and Michael Jordan who was the best player in the NBA.

Hearing what David said, Jake understood that it was true that his story was interesting, but Jake thought it was more normal for sports programs to ask him to participate in the programs, so he was called because of the film he was going to participate in.

"What was the interview program that invited me to participate?"

"It was NBC's The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, the program is recorded in Burbank, California, so you won't have to travel far to record the program."

Jake was surprised that the production of Jay Leno's show had invited him, it was one of the biggest talk shows in the world and was watched by a lot of people, Jake hoped maybe it was another show that needed more audience.

"Okay, I'm going to be on The Tonight Show, but what day am I going to have to go to record the show?"

"They know you're going to be busy, so they left to be recorded today after 5 pm, your training should be in the early afternoon and you will have time to go to Burbank after that."

"Then I will be there."

Jake didn't know what the regular time the show was on, but he knew the show usually had two guests and a musical attraction, so it was very considerate of the broadcaster to change the recording time because of him.

After a few hours, Jake went for the light training of the Los Angeles Lakers team, after training he had to go back to his house to prepare his suit and after that, he went to Burbank.

Jake managed to arrive at The Burbank Studios with a few minutes to go before the appointment, Jake took an ID card at the entrance to the Studio and was soon called by the makeup artists to prepare for the recording.

The makeup artists didn't have much work with Jake because his face was naturally beautiful and his hair was cut every week, Jake was wearing one of his best suits and he didn't have to put on one of the suits they had prepared for the guests.

Soon Jake knew that the other guest who would be interviewed and the musical attraction was singer Fiona Apple, Fiona Apple was a singer that Jake remembered and was well known in the 90s, Jake didn't know Fiona and was never a big fan of her so he just he would talk to her if Fiona came to talk to him.

Jake was tidy and saw that the recordings would soon begin, Jay Leno came over to talk to him a little before the recording of the program started and said he was happy that Jake had accepted the invitation.

After that, the recording of the program started and Jay Leno recorded the beginning of the program with his jokes that Jake remembered that he liked to watch on television, Jake accepted this invitation because in his past life he already thought about participating in the program with Jay Leno.

The recording took a while because they had to re-record some things and they had a break for a few minutes when they moved to start another part of the program, Jake was listening to everything while he waited and soon he was asked to go on stage.

When Jay Leno introduced Jake the audience started to applaud him a lot, Jake didn't expect it because he just saw the audience applauding the most famous artists like great basketball players, actors, and singers.

Jay Leno stood up to greet Jake with a handshake and the two sat down to start the interview while the audience still applauded Jake, after a while everyone stopped and Jake felt lucky that he could control his emotions otherwise he would be too embarrassed.

"Welcome Jake, this is the first time that you're here on my show and I'm happy to have you here."

"Thanks for the invitation, Jay, I watch your programs so it's really cool to be here participating in your program."

"Let's talk a little bit about sports, which is where you stand out the most, you've already participated in 14 big marathons in your 4 years of competition as a runner, and you won 13 of those 14 marathons and came in second in the only marathon you didn't win."

"What do you feel about having achieved this brilliant career and having even won a gold medal at an Olympics in a few years?"

"I always loved running, I started to enjoy sports running and it was always something that made me happy, but I never really thought that I would compete in marathons, so I started playing basketball which was always something I always loved."

"I liked basketball and I knew I had a chance to make a better life for myself and my family if I played basketball well, and when I was younger I found out I was skilled at playing basketball."

"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."

"So I think this is going to be a film that is going to revolutionize the way that action films are going to be made and the audience will like it too."

"Talking about the fight scenes, Keanu was here and praised you a lot saying that you stood out in the fight scenes and that you had several months of training to be able to record the fight scenes, how was that?"

"Yes, me and the other actors did several months of training with martial arts director Yuen Woo-ping, Woo-ping is a really good teacher and taught me a lot of things in a few months."

"I was lucky to be an athlete and so I just had to start learning to fight, the other actors also had to improve their physical condition to endure the long fights."

"But all the actors did very well in the fight scenes Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, and Hugo Weaving were excellent, Woo-ping was able to create a different style for all the actors, you will see incredible scenes with Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss in that film."

"Not to mention that Keanu did the fight scenes while having a health problem that prevented him from moving around so much, everyone struggled for almost 1 year to make this incredible film."

Jake spoke very well of the film even though he did not prepare for it and without even saying much of the plot of the film because he did not want to give spoilers about the film to anyone who was going to watch, Jay Leno was also impressed how Jake looked comfortable in the interview as some artists who have been on his program several times.

Jake could speak very well about the film because he had already seen the film several times in his past life, in addition, Jake had also read several comments about the film made by critics and fans of the film.

So Jake could speak better of how good the film was than the directors who saw the film several times after editing it, so the audience that was watching the interview also started to have more interest in the film.

After some more time the interview ended and Jake left the program applauded by the audience, Jake was happy to have participated in this interview and he hoped to have helped the film to be an even bigger success.

One thing Jake didn't know was that Warner Bros had some doubts about whether the movie would be a success before, so after Jake became one of the NBA's biggest stars this season, Warner Bros decided to invest a lot more money in advertising.

So the movie The Matrix would have a lot more publicity than it did in Jake's past life, this could help attract an even bigger audience to watch the movie while the movie was being shown in the cinema.

Jake knew this was possible because, in his past life, Jake remembered that everyone he knew had ever seen The Matrix and most people liked it, of course, that was why the film was shown on television afterward a few years.

After Jake left Fiona Apple joined the program and Jake waited for the program to end to say goodbye to everyone and go to his house, the recorded program would air on television after two days.

After a few more minutes the show ended and Jake said goodbye to Jay Leno, Fiona Apple, and the people in the show's production and left, Jake wanted to go to his house to get a good rest for the game the next day.

As soon as Jake got home David Falk called him asking how the show had been, David was happy to know that the interview had been good, Jake's commercial with Gatorade was going to start showing on television and that interview would be a good one advertising.

Adidas also had the commercials that Jake recorded prepared, but they would have to wait for Jake's branded sneakers to be released to start showing the commercials on television stations.

David told Jake that in the coming weeks he would have to record a commercial whenever the Los Angeles Lakers team had no games, Jake still had commercials for Chevrolet, Pepsi and Gillette to record in those weeks.

Jake knew he had these responsibilities and agreed to do these commercials whenever he could, Jake didn't like to miss the team's training, so he would talk to these companies to start recording early in the morning.

Jake knew that if he missed the team's training for 3 days in a few weeks, coach Rambis would not like it, Jake knew that Dennis Rodman was heavily criticized for missing some training and being late sometimes.

Fortunately, even though Dennis was still late in training and missed a few games, as the Los Angeles Lakers team was beating coach Rambis he didn't care much about it, Jake also missed some training and this made Coach Rambis's treatment of Dennis less rigid.

Jake also thought it was better if Dennis Rodman could continue playing for the Lakers team at least until the end of this season, after all, Dennis was an excellent player who helped the team in several games.

Jake can rest well and soon the day of the next game arrived, Jake went to the Great Western Forum and saw that the Los Angeles Lakers team fans had come to see the game, Jake went to the locker room and met the other players and everyone went to the court.

In that game, the Los Angeles Lakers team would return to play at home after the difficult sequence of games as a visitor, of the 6 games that the Lakers team had as a visitor were 5 victories and only 1 defeat.

This was very good for the Los Angeles Lakers team that now had 26 wins and 2 losses in 28 games this season, Jake was also happy because he remembered that the Los Angeles Lakers team would have lost 3 games in that 6-game streak as a visitor.

In this game Robert Horry would not play because coach Rambis decided to let him rest, Dennis Rodman would start the first game as a starting player with the confidence of coach Rambis after playing well in the last game.

The opposing team in that game was the Phoenix Suns team that had one of Jake's idols, PG Jason Kidd, the Phoenix Suns team had 13 wins and 13 losses this season in 26 games and they were having an average season.

Jake was worried about this game because he remembered that the Los Angeles Lakers team would lose that game, so he had to play very well to try to prevent this defeat from happening, at the beginning of the game the Los Angeles Lakers team started pressing in the attack.

In that first quarter, Jake realized that Shaquille O'Neal was more tired than in other games and was not playing as well as he normally played, yet he was still one of the players who scored the most points in the game.

The Phoenix Suns team was also playing well, the Phoenix Suns team was a team with one of the best attacks of this season and that was bad for the defense of the Los Angeles Lakers team that was not doing so well.

Soon the first quarter ended with the Los Angeles Lakers team winning with a small advantage on the scoreboard, in the second quarter the Los Angeles Lakers team continued to press in the attack, and the Phoenix Suns team was also pressing in the attack.

It looked like this would be a game in which the team with the best attack would win, in the second quarter the Los Angeles Lakers team was playing very well and managed to further increase the advantage in points.

Coach Rambis started to replace Shaq for a longer time in that quarter because he also noticed how tired Shaq looked, yet the Los Angeles Lakers team continued to play well and ended the second quarter by winning.

In the third quarter the game looked very different, the players of the Phoenix Suns team came back with a desire to win and was playing much better and made much less in attack and the defense of the Los Angeles Lakers team could not stop their attack.

So at the end of the third quarter, the Phoenix Suns team managed to tie the game and in the last quarter, the two teams started with equal chances of winning the game, in that game Dennis Rodman was playing very well taking several rebounds and helping the Lakers team.

Rick Fox was not playing as well, but he still managed to help the team in attack and defense as in other games, in the last quarter the two teams were pressing in attack and were balanced.

Jake started to work even harder in the game by hitting several three-point shots and making steals and blocks trying to stop Jason Kidd, this helped the Los Angeles Lakers team to end the game with the victory.

In this game the Los Angeles Lakers team won making 112 points against 101 points of the Phoenix Suns team, in that game, Jake scored 43 points and 10 steals getting another double-double, at the end of the game Jake was very applauded because the crowd saw how Jake struggled in the last quarter.

In that game Shaquille O'Neal played less than 30 minutes and scored 24 points and had 10 rebounds, Kobe Bryant scored 25 points in that game and played well helping the Los Angeles Lakers team to win.

Dennis Rodman also played well in defense and managed to catch 13 rebounds, these rebounds helped the Los Angeles Lakers team to prevent the Phoenix Suns team from having more chances to attack.

After the end of the game the players were able to return to their home and Jake went to his home, David called Jake because he had asked David to do this after the game, Jake had asked David to try to organize the commercial recordings for very early in the morning and David said he would try.

"Hi, Jake, congratulations on winning that last game, it seemed like a difficult victory."

"Thanks, David, it was a really tough win, in fact, I expected it to be a tough game and with the fatigue of my teammates the game just got tougher."

"It's true, but you have to think that the players of the opposing teams are also tired and you who have a good resistance can take the opportunity to attack more as you did at the end of that game."

After having worked with the best players for several years David learned a lot of things in basketball, so he knew that if the players on the Los Angeles Lakers team who were younger were tired then the opponents would be too.

"I called to tell you that tomorrow you are going to record the commercial for Pepsi, they accepted your order and we are going to start recording in the morning, but you are going to have to come back at night to do the scenes indoors."

"Thanks, David, I didn't want to miss any more training, I don't mind going back to the advertising companies to shoot more scenes after training."

Jake was happy to know that the Pepsi representatives did not mind him recording the commercial early, Jake went to sleep and woke up very early the next day and went to the advertising company that David had given the address to on the call the night before.

On that day the Los Angeles Lakers team would have no game and would only have light training, so Jake would leave the advertising company and go to training in the afternoon, and just at night, he would return to the advertising company.

Jake arrived at the advertising company and everyone was waiting for him, Jake greet the directors of the commercial and the company representative Pepsi and David called him to tell him what the commercial would be like.

"Jake, in this commercial you will be an athlete running a marathon, the advertising company has already prepared a place to record the commercial with several people who will be the audience for the race and the other runners."

David told the rest of the commercial to Jake and he liked the idea, at that time it was normal for a beverage commercial to joke and compare it with other beverage brands if David didn't think it would be a problem he didn't either.

Jake and the people from the advertising company went to the place where the commercial would be recorded, it was a road that would be used as a marathon route, Jake and the other actors would not run many kilometers and that was just to pass the impression on to the audience.

In fact, they would run a few miles and Jake would have to splash his face with water to pretend he was sweating, soon the commercial started recording, Jake ran with the other actors while some hired people were the audience cheering for Jake and the other actors.

The idea for the commercial was for Jack and the other runners to stop at the gas stations and drink water and other drinks, when Jake stopped at the gas stations to drink water he would show a face that he didn't like what he was drinking.

So Jake and the other runners would pass by various booths and Jake would show that he didn't like drinking water and other drinks, Jake and the other actors had done the scenes and the commercial director liked it.

In the final scene, Jake would pass the finish line first and win the marathon, but Jake would not stop to celebrate and receive the award and would keep running, so there was a scene with the camera showing Jake running out of the marathon location afterward to win the marathon.

So Jake would continue running until he found a store and would go into the store to buy a Pepsi, he would drink an entire can of Pepsi and be satisfied finally drinking Pepsi, Jake recorded the commercial in a few hours because the film crew had to change the cameras and prepare the scenes before Jake could record.

The director really liked Jake's work and because he didn't make so many mistakes he can go to the Los Angeles Lakers team training earlier and would have to go back to the advertising company to take the pictures for the commercials in the magazines at night.

Jake, who knew a lot about business, asked David if it was okay for him to do this commercial because he realized that in the commercial he seemed to dislike the drinks he drank during the marathon.

But one of the drinks he drank in the marathons was Gatorade, which was another company that sponsored him, of course, he didn't show the Gatorade brand in this commercial, and everyone would understand that it was just advertising, but Jake knew that after a few commercial years, it wouldn't be accepted.

Jake found the commercial to be very creative and fun to do for the time he was in, of course maybe in the future a commercial like this wouldn't be much fun for the audience to see, but Jake understood that he was in 1999 now.

Jake went straight to his training and just put on his uniform to train so that the players wouldn't get too tired they just did a little training and stayed in the gym for a while and then they were released.

After training Jake went to his house to take a shower and change clothes, Jake got ready and went back to the advertising company to take the pictures and do what he had to do to finish the commercial.

Jake arrived at the advertising company and everything was prepared for him to take the photos that would be used in Pepsi advertising in the coming months, Jake was used to taking the photos and finished it in a few hours.

The Pepsi representative and the people at the advertising company were satisfied with the photos and with Jake's work that day, they had already worked with other artists who were much more annoying and had a lot of demands.

Jake did everything the director of the commercial told and worked for hours without complaining once and also did not make mistakes in the commercials, David was also happy with that because Jake was building a good reputation among advertising companies and among sponsors.

These companies that sponsored Jake were big companies in the market that wasn't even spending a lot of money on that sponsorship, so if they liked Jake and if they realized that the public was buying more of their product because of Jake they could renew the contracts throughout Jake's career and paying a lot more.

David knew that Jake was not pretending and that was his real personality which made his job with Jake so much easier, David knew he didn't have to worry about Jake's personal life because Jake was the type of person who wouldn't bring problems.

After Jake finished doing everything for the recording of the commercial and the photos David reminded Jake that the next day of the next game Jake would have to record the next commercial, David already told Jake that the next commercial was with Chevrolet.

So Jake can go back to his house and go to sleep because the Los Angeles Lakers team had a game the next day, then the day of the next game came and after a few hours, Jake went to the Great Western Forum.

The game that day was against the Sacramento Kings team, the Sacramento Kings team had 11 wins and 17 losses before that game, Jake was worried about that game because in the first game the Los Angeles Lakers team was supposed to lose because of what Jake remembered his past life.

In that game, the Los Angeles Lakers team also lost to the Sacramento Kings team because of what Jake remembered from his past life, that was the reason that Jake was very concerned in that game, in the last game if he didn't try harder than normal to Lakers team would have lost again.

Coach Rambis had to replace Shaquille O'Neal for a few minutes in that game as well so as not to risk Shaq having an injury, Jake and the other players understood that, but it would be harder for the Los Angeles Lakers to win.

At the beginning of the game, the Los Angeles Lakers team started pressing in the attack, Jake knew that in this game he would have to try harder for the Lakers team to win, even so, the Sacramento Kings team also pressed in attack and defense.

The Sacramento Kings team had the second-best attack this season after the Los Angeles Lakers team, but luckily for the Los Angeles Lakers team, the Sacramento Kings team had the worst defense.

In the first quarter, the game was well balanced and Rick Fox was playing very well in that game which helped the Los Angeles Lakers team to put more pressure on the defense, Dennis Rodman who had played well in the last games was also helping on defense.

On the Sacramento Kings team, there were Chris Webber, Corliss Williamson, and Vlade Divac who were playing really well too and that was making things difficult for the Los Angeles Lakers team that was bad.

At the end of the first quarter the Los Angeles Lakers team ended up winning with a big advantage in points, it seemed that if the Los Angeles Lakers team managed to keep the game balanced they would get the victory.

In the second quarter the Sacramento Kings team started to press more in the attack because they knew they needed the victory, the Los Angeles Lakers team continued to press in the attack also because they knew that it was no use just defending against the Sacramento Kings team that had the second-best attack.

Jake knew he would have to try harder in this game and so he started making some steals and blocks in the second quarter and that made things difficult for the Sacramento Kings team to attack, unfortunately, Jake couldn't help much to defend because he had to defend against Jason Williams.

So the game was very balanced again, but the Sacramento Kings team was losing the game by a big difference in points and the balanced game was not very useful for them in that game.

So in the third quarter the Sacramento Kings team started to press hard in the attack and even try to press in the defense, Coach Rambis saw the advantage of the Los Angeles Lakers team and started to replace Shaq for longer and so the Sacramento Kings team also took advantage of that.

The players of the Los Angeles Lakers team were not playing very well in that third quarter and the Sacramento Kings team managed to greatly diminish the advantage, the players of the Sacramento Kings team were also making plays far from where Jake was to avoid him who was the best player in the defense in that game.

So Jake can help by making several shots from three points and thus not letting the Sacramento Kings team tie, in the last quarter the Sacramento Kings team could not stand to press so hard in attack and defense and were more tired.

The game was balanced again and the Los Angeles Lakers team was still winning and had the advantage in points, the game ended with the Los Angeles Lakers team achieving another victory in yet another difficult game.

The Los Angeles Lakers team won the game with 118 points against 106 points from the Sacramento Kings team, in that game Jake was the highlight again and was applauded again by the fans of the Los Angeles Lakers team.

In that game, Jake had 45 points, 11 assists, and 10 steals, getting another triple-double this season, Jake was happy that the Los Angeles Lakers team won another game they would normally have lost.

Shaquille O'Neal did not play very well in that game even though he played for only 31 minutes and scored 24 points, this was one of Shaq's worst games this season and he was not very happy after the game ended.

Kobe Bryant had a good game with 26 points and helped the team to win, Rick Fox also stood out in that game with 21 points, Dennis Rodman also helped the team with 9 rebounds.

The next day the players would have another day of rest and the coach Rambis even released the players from the training that day after all the next two games would also be difficult, the Los Angeles Lakers team was in a sequence of difficult games.

Jake was happy to have a rest day because he was going to record a commercial for Chevrolet the next day and with that rest, he didn't have to worry about training and could record the commercial.

The Gatorade commercial had already started to run on the television stations and the Pepsi commercial would also be ready soon, only the Adidas commercial had to take a while to go on the television stations because Jake's sneakers had to be released together.

Jake was close to bedtime when he got a call from his mom, Jake talked to Eva almost every day, but for the past few days, he knew she was busy organizing the new restaurant menu with Anna and so he decided not to. call her every day.

Jake hadn't realized it earlier because he thought Eva liked to get calls from him after his game was over, but in fact, there was a 3-hour time difference between Los Angeles and Miami.

So when the game was over it was already very late in Los Angeles and it was even later in Miami, even in the morning Jake couldn't call because when he woke up in Los Angeles it was the time that Eva had already entered the restaurant in Miami.

"Hi, Jake, why haven't you called me in the past few days? I was worried about you."

"Sorry about that, mom, you said you were busy at the restaurant organizing the new menu with Anna and I know that when I call you it's too late in Miami, so I decided not to call every day."

"I'm glad to hear that you care about me, Jake, but you should have warned me of this decision you made, I've been worried for the past few days waiting for you to call me."

"Sorry, I was also busy recording commercials and games and I didn't think about it."

"I called you to talk about it, you should have told me that you would be on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, you know I watch that show sometimes."

"Fortunately I was lucky to have the television on that day when you participated in the program, but I couldn't record it because there was no time, you also appeared in a Gatorade commercial."

"I wasn't sure when the program was going to be on television, I also wanted to watch it, I'm going to order a tape recording the program for the broadcaster."

Jake didn't really remember very well if David had spoken when the show was on television, he also wanted to watch to see if he made a mistake when he was on the show.

"Did you say you are recording a lot of commercials? What commercials are you recording?"

"I already recorded this commercial for Gatorade that you saw, I recorded a commercial for Adidas and Pepsi, tomorrow I will record a commercial for Chevrolet and in a few days I will record a commercial for Gillette."

"Now that you've told me that, I'm going to start watching more television in the next few days, so I'm going to watch the commercials you recorded."

Eva was proud to hear that Jake was going to record a commercial for these big companies, Jake had already done many things that impress and make her proud, but Jake still had things that he did that still surprised Eva.

"And you mom, tell me how is the new menu at the restaurant?"

"It's fine, Anna and I have changed the menu completely several times, so we are thinking of bringing to the menu some dishes that were successful in the first years of the restaurant, we think that customers will like this."

"I am sure that customers will enjoy seeing a menu with the best dishes that have ever been made in the restaurant, I would just recommend that you do not use some dishes from the last menu."

"Anna said that too, this is not going to be a problem, we just want customers to enjoy seeing these dishes on the menu again."

Jake was happy to see that his mother was happy, the restaurant was already 5 years old that had been opened and since the first year the restaurant was always full, Jake was proud of his mother and was happy that Eva had Anna to help her.

Jake talked for a few more minutes with his mother and went to sleep because he had to go to the advertising company early to record the commercial, the next day Jake woke up very early and after he ate breakfast and soon after David called him.

"Hi, Jake, congratulations on your victory in the last game, you scored more than 43 points in these two games, I think you will be chosen again to be the player of the month."

"Hahaha, it would be nice if that happened, but I don't know if they would choose a rookie for two months in a row, the most important thing is that the Lakers team keeps winning."

"Okay, I called to remind you that today you are going to record the commercial for Chevrolet and to give you the address of the advertising company."

"I would not forget that today Coach Rambis released us from training, so I will have the whole day to record the commercial."

"That's fine, I'm already here at the advertising company and I'm going to let the commercial director know that he'll have more time to do the recording, come when you're ready."

Jake hung up the phone and as he was ready he went directly to the address David had given, Jake was enjoying filming these commercials and was excited to know what the director would tell him to do.

Jake was very fond of acting and so he agreed to stay several months in Australia to do the filming of the movie The Matrix, especially on this second chance of his that he had more acting skills that were given by the system.

Jake arrived at the advertising company and greet handshake the director of the commercial, the Chevrolet representative and some people from the advertising company, Jake already had a reputation in Los Angeles for being a talented actor and so the advertising companies were easy to record a commercial with him.

David was talking to the commercial director and they had some assistants who were discussing something on the phone, Jack didn't know what it was, but he knew they wouldn't shoot the first scenes at the advertising company because there was nothing from the Chevrolet company at that time place.

Jake can see only a few things that were prepared for him to do the photos for the other advertisements in magazines and elsewhere for Chevrolet, after a while, David finally went to talk to Jake.

"Sorry to keep you waiting, Jake, we were trying to organize the schedules for some actors and some equipment because we are going to finish the entire commercial without having to stop now that you are not going to have the training."

"I didn't know it would cause any problems if you want we can record the commercial the way it was agreed to before."

"It wasn't a problem, the sooner we can finish this commercial it would be better for everyone here, these companies are used to working with artists who have little free time to record commercials."

"We are going to the place where we are going to start recording the commercial and when we get there I tell you what you are going to have to do."

The whole team traveled for more than 2 hours until they entered a place that looked like a farm, they had already left Los Angeles and had entered a dirt road that was part of the farm.

Jack saw the farm and was curious to know what commercial they would have to record, when the film crew arrived at the farm Jake realized that this was no ordinary farm, it was something like a hotel and even had a basketball court and a field of football.

There were still animals on the farm and Jake saw crops before they arrived at the farm, so David who realized that Jake was curious finally told him what the commercial would be like, Jake liked the commercial and thought it was a lot of fun for him to do.

After they have waited for some time the other actors who had not arrived appear in the forest and so the director says that everything is ready and that they can start recording the commercial, soon Jake and the young people go to the basketball court and the commercial begins.

In the commercial, Jake and several young people were playing a game of basketball and in the commercial will show some scenes of them playing, the young people seem to be very wealthy and complain about Jake having chosen a farm for them to spend their weekend of rest.

Even more so because some of the young people say that it rained a lot the day before and therefore the farm officials warned that the dirt road was not very good for them to leave the farm.

This was their last day on the farm and the rich young people didn't want to stay on the farm anymore and wanted to leave for the city even with the warnings from the farm people, so Jake naturally left with his friends too.

So the scene changes and another part of the commercial begins in which young people arrive to get their car for them to leave, everyone has sports cars and luxury cars and Jake has his black Chevrolet Silverado.

The young people laugh at Jake's car and say that he had to choose a much better car like theirs, after all, they are friends and know that Jake also has money, and Jake replies that he prefers this more reliable car and that he has his style.

So the young people take their cars and leave the farm in a hurry towards the city, Jake is still calm and gets into his Chevrolet Silverado, then the camera shows Jake driving and the dirt road with lots of mud because of the rain.

After Jake has been on the road for a while he arrives at a place on the dirt road where his friends' cars are stuck in the mud and can't get out, the sports cars and luxury cars are dirty with mud and can't get out of the mud.

So Jake passes his Chevrolet Silverado easily through the place where his friends' cars are stuck, after passing through the place where the cars are stuck Jake to his car and take a rope and help to pull the other cars out of the mud.

This was the commercial and just like David said it took several hours for them to record the commercial because they had to find a hotel that was on the farm and rent it for a whole day, then they had to leave the dirt road with a lot of mud and not it had rained in the past few days.

It was a difficult job for the advertising team and for the director to do this scene despite all these problems, Jake found the commercial cool and interesting, the commercial showed Chevrolet Silverado well and also showed the car's capacity.

Jake thought it might be better if he just drove the Chevrolet Silverado over to the place where his friends' cars were stuck and left to get revenge for having laughed at him.

But Jake understood that with the commercial the way the director put it showed a more positive message and showed, even more, the strength of the Chevrolet Silverado towing the other cars, after several hours they finished the commercial and everyone really liked how the commercial was.

Chevrolet decided to do this type of commercial using Jake's actor side rather than showing him as a basketball player and marathoner, so they could make a more normal commercial for their company and they would still use Jake's popularity in the commercial.

After the recording of the commercial ended they went back to the advertising company to take care of the photos, the photos took a long time and Jake greet all the people who worked with him and went back to his house.

Jake recorded this commercial and then there would not be another commercial to record in the next few days, the Los Angeles Lakers team would have two games in two days in a row, after those two games the players would have 3 days of rest before the other game of the Los Angeles Lakers team.

This would be great for players who were having a hard time continuing to play well in this intense sequence of games, at that time Jake would have no rest because he would record another commercial and would have to go to the premiere of The Matrix.

Fortunately for Jake, the next commercial would be the last one he would have to record that year, the companies that sponsored him would not want to spend money making two commercials in the same year, so maybe next year he would record several commercials again, after all, his contracts were all at least 4 years old.

The other day Jake woke up very early and was preparing for the next difficult game they would have, even though in the past life the Los Angeles Lakers team won that game, Jake would not be surprised if they lost this next game.

After a few hours, Jake went to the Great Western Forum where the game would take place, Jake saw that thousands of people had come to cheer for the Los Angeles Lakers team and that the Great Western Forum could sell out again.

The Los Angeles Lakers team was standing out a lot this season with 28 wins and only 2 losses in 30 games, that season had only 50 games and it was certain that the Los Angeles Lakers team would qualify for the playoffs.

Jake's entry into the team this first season could not be better with an average of more than 34 points per game and 11 assists per game, Jake was also the player who played the most time in games with 48 minutes in all games.

So it was normal for Jake to become one of the crowd's favorite players, the people who criticized the Los Angeles Lakers team for swapping Eddie Jones, Elden Campbell and Derek Harper had disappeared and everyone praised Jerry West for yet another good choice for the Lakers team.

Soon Jake and the players of the Los Angeles Lakers team went to the court for the game to start, the opponent in that game was the New York Knicks team, this was the first game of the Los Angeles Lakers team facing the New York Knicks team this season.

The New York Knicks team got off to a good start this season with 16 wins and 13 losses in 29 games, even if they didn't win many games Jake was very careful with the New York Knicks team that would surprise in this year's playoffs reaching the final.

So if the Los Angeles Lakers team reached the playoffs final this NBA season it was very likely that the opponent was the New York Knicks team, in the New York Knicks team there was one of Jake's great NBA idols who was Patrick Ewing who was also one of David Falk's best customers.

Patrick Ewing was always an excellent player and stood out in the current team of the New York Knicks, this team New York Knicks had one of the worst attacks of this season, but also had one of the best defenses which would make this game more balanced if the team defense New York Knicks managed to stop the Los Angeles Lakers team's attack.

"Welcome to everyone who came to watch another game this NBA season, this is a game between the Los Angeles Lakers against the New York Knicks, they are two great teams that will face each other today."

"The New York Knicks team is doing well this NBA season and has one of the best defenses this season, with 16 victories and 13 defeats, the New York Knicks team wants to win this game more, the highlights of the New York Knicks team are the many times All-star Patrick Ewing and Allan Houston who have been playing very well this season."

"The Los Angeles Lakers team is currently the best team with the best attack and a good defense too, with 28 wins and just 2 losses this season, the Lakers team is a favorite to win this home game."

"With highlights from Shaquille O'Neal, Kobe Bryant and Jake Smith, the Los Angeles Lakers team can win this game if the best attack overcomes the New York Knicks team's strong defense in this game that promises to be balanced."

The Los Angeles Lakers team would start that game with Jake playing as PG, Kobe Bryant playing as SG, Rick Fox playing as SF, Dennis Rodman playing as PF, and Shaquille O'Neal playing as Center.

The New York Knicks team would start the game with Chris Childs playing as PG, Allan Houston playing as SG, Latrell Sprewell playing as SF, Larry Johnson playing as PF, and Patrick Ewing playing as Center.

The game started and Shaquille O'Neal got the first ball possession for the Los Angeles Lakers team, Shaq passed the ball to Jake who started organizing the first attack for the Los Angeles Lakers team.

Jake advanced with the ball and passed it to Kobe Bryant on the right, Kobe received the ball and Allan Houston arrived pressing on defense, Kobe held the ball for a while and passed it to Rick Fox on the left.

Rick played well in the last game and was more confident to help the Los Angeles Lakers team in that game, Rick received the ball and Latrell Sprewell came pressing on defense, Rick tried to trick Sprewell with a feint, but Sprewell was not fooled.

Rick held the ball a little and passed it to Jake in the back, Jake received the ball and Chris Childs came pressing on the defense, Jake held the ball a little and passed it to Shaq further on the left.

Shaq received the ball and Patrick Ewing came pressing on the defense, Shaq used his strength to advance closer to the painted area, but Ewing was very strong too and did not let Shaq go too far.

Shaq managed to make the spin and tried the hook shot to make 2 points for the Los Angeles Lakers team, Jake knew that in this game Shaq would have a lot of difficulty playing against Patrick Ewing and he would have fewer points even playing normally and not being replaced.

In this game Jake and the players of the Los Angeles Lakers team would have to think better about how to make the attack moves to overcome the strong defense of the New York Knicks team, achieving victory in that game was important for the Lakers team.

In another move, the New York Knicks team was in the attack, Childs advanced with the ball and passed to Houston on the left, Houston received the ball and Kobe came pressing on defense, Houston held the ball a little and passed it to Sprewell on the right.

Sprewell received the ball and Rick came in to press the defense, Sprewell managed to trick Rick with a feint and advanced into the area, Sprewell advanced and tried a mid-range shot to make 2 points for the New York Knicks team.

The two teams started pressing in the attack at the beginning of the game, the strong defense of the New York Knicks team prevented the attack of the Los Angeles Lakers team to attack normally and with the weak attack of the New York Knicks team, even the defense of the Los Angeles Lakers team not being very good I could still defend.

So the game was balanced in the first quarter as many expected it would happen, they would be the best players of both teams who would decide the outcome of the game if they played well.

Jake advanced with the ball and passed it to Rick on the left, Rick received the ball and Sprewell arrived pressing on the defense, Rick held the ball for a while and passed to Kobe on the right, Kobe received the ball and Houston arrived pressing on the defense.

Kobe returned to play well in the last games and he was helping the Los Angeles Lakers team to win in the last games with Shaq not playing very well, Jake also realized this and started to pass the ball over to Kobe.

Kobe tricked Houston with a feint and used his speed to make a crossover and move left, Houston managed to recover and tried to defend against Kobe, but Kobe did not try to advance to the painted area and tried a mid-range shot to make 2 more points for the Los Angeles Lakers team.

In another move the New York Knicks team was on the attack, Childs advanced the ball and passed it to Sprewell on the right, Sprewell received the ball and Rick arrived pressing on defense, Sprewell held the ball for a while and passed to Houston on the left.

Houston received the ball and Kobe came on to defend, Houston tried to trick Kobe with a feint, but Kobe was not fooled, so Houston decided to pass the ball to Ewing later on.

Ewing received the ball and Shaq arrived pressing in defense, Ewing made a feint and managed to spin and advance to the painted area, Shaq was deceived and tried to return to defend, Ewing advanced made 2 more points with a dunk for the New team York Knicks.

Ewing and Shaq were excellent players in attack, but nowadays Ewing was much better defending than Shaq and that made Ewing have the advantage in that game, in the dispute between these two players nobody could help much.

The first quarter ended with the Los Angeles Lakers team winning the game with a small points advantage, in that first quarter Jake played for 12 minutes and had 8 points, 3 assists, 2 rebounds, and 2 steals.

"The first quarter ends and the Los Angeles Lakers team is winning the game with a small advantage in points, yet the game was well balanced between the two teams in that first quarter."

"The Los Angeles Lakers team played better in that first quarter because their defense managed to stop the attack by the New York Knicks team, and the defense by the New York Knicks team failed to stop the attack by the Los Angeles Lakers team which is the best attack of the season."

"It's true, in the second quarter the New York Knicks team has to put more pressure on the attack and try to stop the Los Angeles Lakers team from making the points, I think this is difficult because Jake is playing very well and Kobe too."

"Yes, Rick also seems to be playing well in this game and Shaq is managing to attack even with Ewing's strong defense in the game, we will continue to follow up to see if the New York Knicks team defeats the Los Angeles Lakers team in that game."

In the second quarter just as the commentators spoke, the New York Knicks team tried to put more pressure on the attack and defense, luckily as the commentators said the Los Angeles Lakers team players were playing very well.

Jake advanced with the ball and passed to Kobe on the right, Kobe received the ball and Houston arrived pressing on the defense, Kobe held the ball a little and passed to Rick on the left, Rick received the ball and Sprewell arrived pressing on the defense.

Rick tried to deceive the opponent with a feint, but Sprewell was not deceived and continued to defend, so Rick decided to pass the ball to Jake further back, Jake received the ball and Childs came pressing on the defense.

Jake made a feint and deceived the opponent, Jake stepped back and tried a shot from outside to make 3 more points for the Los Angeles Lakers, Childs still tried to defend, but he was unable to hinder Jake in a move that Jake made several times in the game.

In this game as the players of the Los Angeles Lakers team were playing well, Jake was not trying as hard as he did in the last games that were difficult for the Lakers team to win, Jake was beginning to feel tired after the last games.

In another move the New York Knicks team was on the attack, Childs advanced with the ball and went to Houston on the left, Houston held the ball and tried to deceive the opponent with a feint, but Kobe was not deceived and kept pressing in defense.

So Houston held the ball a little and decided to pass it on to Patrick Ewing ahead, Ewing received the ball and Shaq pressed on defense, Ewing tried to trick Shaq with a feint, but this time Shaq was not fooled and remained firm in defense.

Ewing moved away from Shaq and tried a hook shot and ended up missing, Dennis Rodman managed to be quick and catch the rebound for the Los Angeles Lakers team, Dennis held the ball and passed it to Jake who calmed the Lakers team players and started to move slowly for the attack.

The Los Angeles Lakers team managed to further increase the points advantage and Jake thought they did not have to rush to attack, the game remained balanced between the two teams and the second quarter ended.

The Los Angeles Lakers team was playing better in attack and it was more difficult for the New York Knicks team to recover in the game, in the third quarter the game remained the same and the Los Angeles Lakers team continued to win with a good point advantage.

At the end of the game, the Los Angeles Lakers team won the game with 113 points against 87 points of the New York Knicks team, in that game Jake played for 48 minutes and had 32 points, 11 assists, 8 rebounds, and 8 steals.

"The game with the Los Angeles Lakers team ends with another victory this season, the attack of the Los Angeles Lakers team in that game managed to win the defense of the New York Knicks team."

"That was expected, the Los Angeles Lakers team has the best attack this season and the New York Knicks team does not have the best defense, a strong attack will always defeat a team with a good defense."

"Of course, if the New York Knicks had a good defense and a good attack they would definitely win that game and would be one of the favorite teams to win this season's NBA title."

"The biggest highlight of the New York Knicks team remains Patrick Ewing who played very well in that game and in addition to getting a double-double with 20 points and 13 rebounds and still defending well against Shaq in that game."

"But the New York Knicks team needs more players like Ewing if they want to win the NBA title, in the Los Angeles Lakers team there are Jake Smith, Kobe Bryant, and Shaquille O'Neal who are excellent players and so the Lakers team is winning so many games."

"In this game, Rick also played very well and Dennis Rodman helped the team with 12 rebounds, with the Lakers team playing so it was difficult for them to lose this game."

With this victory more, the players of the Los Angeles Lakers team were very happy with this victory, they would have no rest because the next day they would have another game, luckily after the next game the players would have 3 days to rest.

The players went to their house to rest for the next day, Jake went to his house and can rest better as he had not tried so hard in that game, Jake hoped that the game the next day would be easy.

Soon the day of the next game for the Los Angeles Lakers team arrived, after a few hours Jake went to the Great Western Forum which was already starting to fill up again with the fans of the Los Angeles Lakers team who came to accompany the team that was winning many games.

Jake went to the locker room and soon went to almost with the players of the Los Angeles Lakers team who were ready to start the game, in this game coach Rambis plans to replace Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal for a few minutes and that would leave the game more difficult for the Los Angeles Lakers team to win.

The opponent of that game was the Vancouver Grizzlies team, which for now was one of the worst teams this season, even so, Jake did not underestimate the opponent because in his past life the Los Angeles Lakers team lost a game against the Vancouver Grizzlies team.

The Vancouver Grizzlies team had 4 wins and 25 losses in 29 games this season, it was certain that the Vancouver Grizzlies team would not qualify for the playoffs so perhaps the team's strategy would be to lose a few more games to win a better choice in the next draft.

After all, this season the Vancouver Grizzlies team got Mike Bibby who was an excellent player and was helping the Vancouver Grizzlies team to play better, unfortunately, that was not enough to get more victories for the team.

Soon the game started with the Los Angeles Lakers team putting a lot of pressure on the attack, the Vancouver Grizzlies team was bad this season and so even with the Los Angeles Lakers team replacing Kobe and Shaq for a few minutes, the Lakers team was expected to win.

At the end of the first quarter, the Los Angeles Lakers team was winning with a good lead on the scoreboard as expected, the Vancouver Grizzlies team's players were trying to put pressure on the defense, but the Los Angeles Lakers team was stronger.

In this game all the players on the Los Angeles Lakers team were playing very well, Kobe and Shaq were well on the attack even though they were replaced for a few minutes, Dennis Rodman was also helping the team with his rebounds.

Rick was also playing well in this game as well as in the last games, Rick was gaining more confidence with good performances and coach Rambis who was previously dissatisfied with his performance also started to be happier.

In the second quarter, the Los Angeles Lakers continued to press in attack and also in defense and the advantage in points increased even more, in the third quarter, coach Rambis began to replace Shaq and Kobe for longer.

As a result, the Los Angeles Lakers team slowed down the game a bit and even so, they were still attacking a lot as was their style of play, Jake managed to control the pace of the game well and that made things even more difficult for the Vancouver Grizzlies team.

So the game went on like this and in the last quarter, the Los Angeles Lakers team attacked again and further increased the points advantage in the game, at the end of the game the Los Angeles Lakers team won making 131 points against 94 points of the Vancouver Grizzlies team.

With everyone playing well, Jake felt less pressured to work hard on this game, even though the system helped reinforce his body with statistics. Jake still felt tired after so many games and with this week's recording commercials.

In that game Jake had 35 points and 14 assists and got another double-double, Shaq also played well and scored 26 points and Kobe scored 20 points, Rick also played very well and scored 22 points in that game and Dennis Rodman helped the team taking 17 rebounds.

With these victories more the players of the Los Angeles Lakers team were more relaxed to rest in the next days that the Lakers team would not have a game, Jake would not have so much time to rest because the next day he would have to go to record the commercial with the company Gillette.

In addition, Jake had the other day to go to the Premiere of the film The Matrix in Los Angeles on the day of the premiere, in some places the actors have already made a preview, but Jake cannot participate, so in the premiere for the audience, he would participate.

With the participation of Jake in this film that was currently very famous worldwide and with Keanu Reeves who already had fame even before the film The Matrix was released, the public was eager to watch this film.

Warner Bros was happy to advertise more because with the age restriction to watch the film and with the film having more than 2 hours, the producers were afraid that the film would not be such a success or at least take longer to have great success.

The players returned to their home after the game and Jake also arrived at his house, Mary was still awake waiting for Jake and had already prepared a bath for him and prepared dinner.

Jake was happy to have hired Mary as his housekeeper, Mary was really efficient and so Jake hardly needed to talk to the other employees in his house, moreover, with Mary and the other employees Jake didn't feel that much alone when he was home.

Jake took a shower and then ate the food prepared by the maids who had already gone to sleep, after eating Jake went back to the living room and saw that Mary was still waiting for him, Jake knew that if he didn't go back to the living room, Mary would be waiting for some hours.

"Sir, do you need me to do anything else?"

"Thank you, Mary, you can go to rest, I already said that you don't have to wait for me on the days I play."

"This is my job, Sir, I need to do my job properly, good night."

Jake liked Mary's work, but he thought she was very serious, in fact, at first, Jake asked Mary to call him by name, but Mary was offended by this and said she couldn't do it and so Jake didn't insist anymore.

Jake was tired and wanted to sleep early because he had to record the commercial the next day and the players would have training in the next few days, but before going to sleep Jake decided to call his mother.

"Hi, Mom how are you?"

"Hi, Jake, I'm fine, and how are you?"

"I'm fine too, I called to remind you that the premiere of the film I participated in is going to be in two days, I know you really wanted to watch it and I didn't want you to miss it."

"I know that Jake, I even set my date on my calendar to keep in mind, but thanks for reminding me anyway, I will definitely watch the movie, I want to see what you are like as an actor."

"Hahaha, I hope you like it, I will not participate in many scenes because I have a secondary character, but in some fight scenes you will definitely see me, I recorded several scenes and even if the directors cut some scenes I still I will appear."

"I don't really like fight scenes, especially when I see my son fighting, but this time I'm going to watch it and I'm going to take Anna with me."

"I hope you like the movie."

After that Jake talked to his mother for a while and went to sleep to be well for the next day, Jake woke up and went down to eat the breakfast that Mary had already sent the maids to get ready.

Mary also liked to work at Jake's house, Jake was always polite to her and the other maids and paid a good salary too, she and the other maids were concerned when they heard that a young man wanted to hire them to work.

Even more because Jake hired only women to work in the house and live in the houses of employees, there were some men working in the house too, but none lived in Jake's house and they only showed up a few days a week.

Mary was even more concerned when she learned that Jake was a basketball player, she had previously worked in other homes in Los Angeles and knew about various rumors about how other players treated maids and various rumors of harassment.

Fortunately, she soon realized that Jake was not like the players of the rumors, nor did he bring other women to his house, did not party, and was actually better than other bosses from other houses she worked for.

As soon as Jake finished eating David called him, Jake found it interesting how David seemed to know the right time to call him, David passed on the ad company's address and Jake went there.

Arriving at the advertising company Jake waited awhile until he found David talking to the director of the commercial, Jake saw this and thought that the commercial must be too long or difficult to do for David to still be talking to him, so David went to talk to Jake.

"Hi, Jake, I didn't expect you to arrive anytime soon."

"It is better that I come early to finish recording the commercial faster, the last commercial took several hours to be recorded and today I still have to go train with the Lakers team."

"You don't have to worry about that, Jake, I think recording the commercial won't take too long."

Jake didn't expect David to say that Jake thought the commercial would be complicated or too long from the way he was talking to the director, but it looks like they were talking about something else.

"How come the commercial won't take too long?"

"You may have seen some Gillette commercials, they like to do a short commercial where most of them don't even have a conversation between the actors in the commercial."

"It looks like this commercial will be no different, it will be recorded all here in the recording studio of the advertising company, you will not have lines and you will simply use Gillette's razor several times in several different scenes."

Jake was a little disappointed to hear that, he hoped that with this sponsorship he could do an interesting commercial with Gillette too, but it seemed like they didn't think the same as Jake.

Jake remembered that Gillette sponsored several tennis players and golfers, but Jake did not remember many commercials on Gillette's television with basketball players.

"Don't worry about it, Jake, you have already recorded very good commercials with 4 big companies and even if this commercial is not so special you don't care about it."

"Ever since Gillette came to talk to me about a contract with you, I knew it was because you brought a lot of profits to the razor company that sponsored you for many years."

With David saying that he understood, Jake didn't really care if Gillette didn't want to use his image a lot in advertisements, just as David said it was a deal and Jake knew that Gillette would gain a lot from it when he won the NBA title with Los Angeles Lakers team.

Jake didn't know yet if the Los Angeles Lakers team could win that year, but next year it was certain that the Los Angeles Lakers team could win the NBA title, Jake knew that the Los Angeles Lakers team won in the past and could win with him in the team too.

But maybe Jake would not renew this contract with Gillette when the 4-year contract ended, if Jake got 2 more companies to sponsor him in the coming years with a higher value than his current contracts, then he might not renew the contract with Gillette.

After a few minutes, Jake started recording the commercial which, just as David said, had no lines and it was just Jake using the razor and other common scenes that would be placed in a commercial after good editing and good music.

Jake took some pictures after that and just as David said the recording of the commercial had only taken a few hours and Jake could easily arrive at his training with the Los Angeles Lakers team.

After Jake left he was happy that this was the last commercial even though he was a little disappointed, Jake knew that the other day he still had to attend the Premiere the next day and only after that, he could relax.

Jake did more heavy training with the team as they would still have 2 days to rest, Coach Rambis was concerned because in the last games the Los Angeles Lakers team won with a small advantage in points.

After training Jake returned to his house to take a shower and rest, Mary knew that Jake would be coming home and had already prepared everything for him and Jake just relaxed in the bathtub.

Jake got out of his bath and thought it would be good to call Kate to tell her about the movie he attended that would open the next day, even if Kate was busy she could go watch it some other day when she had time.

"Hi, Kate, how are you?"

"I'm fine, Jake, I miss you, but I'm working a lot after Grammy, Lily is happy with that and so am I, but I still miss you."

"I am happy to know that you are doing a lot of shows, I miss you too, but I am also busy with the games and the advertising work, I am much happier to know that you are also happy working."

Kate understood what Jake said, they had talked about it and Jake said that he accepted Kate to continue her career and doing shows which made her very happy, Jake said that he would feel guilty if she had to stay home alone waiting for him while he was playing in the NBA.

Kate liked Jake very much and it would be a big shock to her if he wanted her to stop singing if Jake wanted that Kate would probably choose her career because she always loved singing, but she would suffer a lot from it.

Kate was an independent woman, but she remembered how happy her mother was even though she didn't work and just took care of her and her father, but Kate wanted to continue singing because she loved singing and hearing that Jake supported her and that made her so much quieter.

"I know you support me and I'm happy with it, Jake, I've seen your commercial on Gatorade several times in the past few days and I've missed it most because of it."

"I called you to say that tomorrow there will be the premiere of the film I participate in, but hearing you say that I don't know if you want to watch it."

"Of course I'm going to want to watch it, I like to miss you, it makes me more anxious for when we meet, tomorrow I don't have a show, so I'm going to watch the movie, unfortunately, I'm not going to be in Los Angeles. "

"I hope you enjoy the movie, try to take Lily to see the movie with you, I think she will like the movie."

"I'm going to try, but I don't think Lily likes fighting movies very much."

Jake talked for a long time with Kate until they had to hang up because the two of them would be very busy the next day, Jake had his training with the Los Angeles Lakers team and then would have the film premiere.

And Kate had to rehearse for her show and also go to watch Jake's debut, Jake knew that Lily wouldn't let Kate go to the cinema if she didn't do her training, Jake had seen Kate training a few times and knew how much it was difficult.

Jake slept well that day and soon came the Premiere of the movie The Matrix, Jake had ordered a suit from Armani especially for this premiere and they had already delivered it to his house, so Jake asked Mary to leave the suit ready for when he returned home.

At this Premiere in Los Angeles, only Jake would go, after all the other actors and directors of the film had already participated in other previews a few days ago in other countries and also in the United States.

Even so, several photographers and reporters would attend this premiere for the public in Los Angeles just because Jake would participate, Jake wouldn't have to say anything before the film and would just have to take a few pictures.

In the same movie theater that Jake would watch, there would be many reporters and photographers and the normal audience too, so Warner Bros. prepared some security guards with the cinema's authorization to give Jake some protection at this Premiere.

Jake ate his breakfast and waited a few hours before going to the Los Angeles Lakers team training, it would be a lighter training because the next day they would do another light training and they were already going to travel to the next game.

In training, Jake realized that Shaquille O'Neal and the other players already seemed more rested after those 2 days without games, with this intense sequence of games those 3 days of rest would be great for the players to endure until the end of the game season.

The players had to rest and the medical team was concerned that someone would get hurt by the end of the season after the season was over they expected players to try harder for the playoffs.

After all, in the playoffs the intention was that the team played each game as if it were the last one because it could even be if they lost, the players knew that the Los Angeles Lakers fans expected them to win the NBA title and so the pressure was greater.

Of course, this could be bad for players because if they won all games and advanced to the final they could play up to 26 games if they didn't win all games, and at least they would play 15 games if they won all games.

If they played as many games as they would have to play more than half of the game season to win the playoffs and win the NBA title, that also worried the team doctors and coach Kurt Rambis, after all, it was common for some player to get hurt in playoff games because of the intensity of the games.

Jake was not worried about getting hurt during the playoffs and even if another player got hurt he could work even harder to get the Los Angeles Lakers team to the final.

Jake didn't mind eating the stamina bars to be able to play intensively in every game, his only concern was that his teammates were playing badly at the games.

If that happened even if he tried, it was likely that the Los Angeles Lakers team would lose the game in the same way, the other players also thought about it and that is why they tried this training to play even better and for the Lakers team to have easier victories in the upcoming games.

Shaquille O'Neal, Kobe Bryant, Rick Fox, and Dennis Rodman were working hard on training just like Jake so the Los Angeles Lakers team could continue winning, Jake no longer saw Dennis Rodman missing from training as he remembered his past life.

Jake thought it was because this time Dennis Rodman could see that the Los Angeles Lakers team really had the ability to win the NBA title, as a professional basketball player Dennis also wanted to win an NBA title even though he had already won 5 NBA title in his career.

From what Jake remembered in his past life, the situation of the Los Angeles Lakers team was not so good and even though many thought that the Los Angeles Lakers team was one of the favorites to win the NBA title, it was not at all certain.

At that time Jake remembered that the Los Angeles Lakers team had 21 wins and 11 losses in 32 games this season, this time with Jake playing the Los Angeles Lakers team had 30 wins and only 2 losses in the season, that was a very big difference between the past and the present.

With Jake on the team, everyone said that the Los Angeles Lakers team was the favorite to win the NBA title, Dennis also realized that and decided to work as he did on the Chicago Bulls team to try to win another NBA title.

In addition, another important thing changed in the Los Angeles Lakers team that was that the players did not argue and fight anymore, Jake thought that in the next seasons that would not change either.

After all, some of the reasons for the fights were because Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal wanted to be the main player on the team, Shaq was the main player on the team at that time and Kobe didn't like that very much.

But this time it didn't happen and it wouldn't happen because the player who stood out the most on the team was Jake, Jake was a PG who helped the team with assists and steals, also helped in defense and that's why Kobe and Shaq were not jealous of him and they recognized that he deserved to be the best player on the team.

Rarely did some players on a team fight or decide to change teams because PG was the best player on the team, this only happened when PG was too arrogant or his teammates were arrogant.

This is because for a PG to play well he has to help the team to win by making assists and helping in defense if even with PG doing that he was still the player who scored the most it was because PG was excellent.

So Jake was confident that Dennis could stay on the team at least until the end of the playoffs, next year with the signing of coach Phil Jackson it would be even more possible for Dennis to remain on the team and not cause any more problems.

After the training was over the players were tired and were getting ready to go to their house when Jake called them to talk, Jake was a good team leader on the court like Shaq and Kobe were and he was praised for it.

But outside the court Jake didn't talk much with the other players, he talked a lot with Rick who was his best friend on the team, and also talked with Kobe and Shaq when they were training.

Players did not know that Jake knew the future and knew of the achievements they would have, Shaq and Kobe would be remembered as one of the best players in NBA history on a list of the top 100.

Even though Jake wanted to talk to them it was difficult for him who was always a fan of them to talk normally, so when Jake called them, Jake only called Shaq, Kobe, Rick, Dennis, Robert, and Derek who were the players he knew best and talked sometimes.

When Jake was invited by Warner Bros to participate in the premiere of the film The Matrix, they prepared for Jake 10 tickets in the same movie theater that he would be watching the movie, these tickets were for him to invite friends and his family to watch the movie.

Unfortunately, his mother and most of his friends were in Miami or at university, Kate wouldn't be in Los Angeles either, so Jake didn't know many people to invite to watch the movie with him.

If Jake didn't take anyone, they would return tickets to the box office and tickets would be sold for the public to watch, so Jake thought about inviting his teammates to go with him to this Premiere.

Jake knew it was very likely that no one would want to go with him because some players had their family at home waiting for them, but he thought it was best that he at least tried to invite them.

The players were not so surprised to hear Jake calling them, some had already seen Jake's interview on television and others had seen advertisements for the film that were shown several times on television.

Normally they wouldn't think about going to see a movie like that on such a sudden invitation, but they knew this was Jake's debut as an actor in a big movie and they were friends with him.

Rick and Dennis agreed to go to the cinema to watch the movie with Jake, Robert and Derek refused because they had to go and stay with their family, so there was only Kobe and Shaq left to answer, the two were friends of Jake as well as Rick who had agreed to go to the movies.

With that, the two also agreed to go to the Premiere with Jake to watch his movie, so the players from the initial team of the Los Angeles Lakers would go together to the Premiere of the movie The Matrix to watch the movie that Jake would participate in.

Jake was sure that Warner Bros did not expect this when he asked Jake to be the Premiere of the film, that Premiere could be even more impressive than the Premiere that the main actors and directors were.

So Jake and the other players went to their house to get ready to go to the Premiere, Jake arrived at his house and Mary had already prepared a dinner for him and his bath too, so Jake went straight to shower and then went to dinner.

Jake was going to eat because there was no party after the Premiere and he just wanted to go back to his house after the movie, Jake was sure that his friends thought the same too.

After Jake ate dinner he went to put on his suit that Mary had prepared, Jake tried it on and was happy that the suit was perfectly fitted even though he hadn't been to the store many times to make adjustments.

After putting on the suit Jake called the car he had rented and went to the Cinerama Dome which was where the film premiere would take place, the Cinerama Dome was a cinema known for many years and Warner Bros decided it would be a good place for Jake participate in the Premiere.

Jake did not use the cars he had because they were both very flashy and Jake would only use them when he had private matters, it was better that he rented a more luxurious and simple car that would not attract so much attention in Los Angeles.

Soon Jake arrived at the Cinerama Dome and was surprised to see a red carpet and several reporters, Jake had heard that no interview would take place and it would just be a simpler Premiere, he did not expect a red carpet and so many reporters.

Of course, he knew that some reporters and film critics were invited to this Premiere to watch the movie, but Jake didn't expect the red carpet, so Jake arrived at the security guards that Warner Bros prepared were there to protect Jake and accompany him into the movie theater.

Jake was not used to it and was also surprised to see that there was a large audience that was shouting his name in front of the cinema, this was a film open to the public and they should want to watch the film and not act like fans.

Of course, what happened was that in fact, Jake could not understand yet that he was as famous today as many famous actors and artists, Jake did not attend many Premiere and party parties and that was why he hadn't seen so many fans besides when he was on the court.