Timberlake’s Basketball Diaries Offer Nixed

The New York Daily News reports the seven figure deal *NSYNC’s Justin Timberlake scored with Ballantine Books has been nixed by the publisher as they were spooked by poor sales of Britney Spears’ booke written with her mother entitled, “A Mother’s Gift.” Timberlake had been signed on to write “Inside Drive: A Novel of Basketball, Life and Love.” As of yet, it’s unknown if Justin will seek another publisher to publish the novel.