If you'd settled for peanuts-- an advance of, say, fifteen or twenty thousand simoleons-- the publisher could have said, " If you don't want to get out there and sell your own book it's no skin off my nose, J . P ."
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Imagine what it was like to surround the world's greatest basketball player with dozens of cartoon teammates and opponents, give them all a virtual ( but utterly realistic-looking ) arena to play in and, oh yeah, keep the whole thing funny and clever enough to justify an $ 80 million budget and gazillions of simoleons more in promotional blitzing.
