Kemba will forgo his final year of eligibility; graduates in three years while reading one book

As we all expected, Kemba Walker announced his decision to enter the NBA Draft on Tuesday afternoon.

Its the correct decision. There is nothing that he can do that will ever make his draft stock any higher. A 5'11" scoring guard, Kemba will be selected in the top ten of this year's draft despite most outlets projecting his best case scenario as a high-energy, instant-offense threat off the bench. That's what happens when you dominate the month of March in college hoops.

Throw in the fact that Kemba is coming off of a national championship and will be graduating this spring, and there really isn't anything left for him to do at the college level. According to the Hartford Courant, he'll be finishing up his degree by interning for whatever NBA team drafts him:

Walker, a sociology major, is just shy of graduating. He'll finish course work over the next few weeks and will have some online courses and internship (probably conducted with the NBA team that drafts him) in order to officially graduate. He will walk in the commencement next month.

The fact that Walker is graduating in three years is a bit of a shock in and of itself. He wasn't exactly a model student prior to this year, but he made a decision over the summer to dedicate himself to his studies in order to leave UConn with a degree in three years.

Oh, and he also read his first book:

Even before that Walker had begun trying to complete himself in ways that underscore the danger of painting any college basketball program—even one that will go on probation immediately after winning the national title—in broad, cynical strokes. Last spring Walker approached UConn academic counselor Felicia Crump and asked her to help him figure out how to earn his degree in sociology so that he could enter the draft this year and still graduate. Together they built a schedule that required Walker to take courses last summer in Storrs and then a full load in both the fall and the spring. "We're talking about a young man who was just an average high school student, at best, and who had always been more concerned with basketball," says Crump. "I told him, 'If you can do this, you'll leave behind a legacy that's more important than anything you do on the basketball court.'"

Walker took schoolwork with him throughout the Big East and NCAA tournaments, completing short required papers while postponing tests until after the season. He met with his campus tutor on Skype. And in his travel pack is a copy of New York Times columnist William C. Rhoden's Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete, a book that Crump encouraged Walker to read as part of an independent study class on racism in sports. Before the Final Four, Crump suggested that Rhoden's book would be the first that Walker had ever made it through cover-to-cover. After the win over Kentucky, Walker confirmed this. "That's true," he said. "You can write that. It is the first book I've ever read."