I feel that it is my best interest to declare for the NBA draft. The draft process will provide a great learning experience and will help me become a better player.

I want to make sure that when the June 18 deadline comes, it will be my decision, not someone else's or any outside reason, whether I stay or go.

The NBA will have to wait.

Will that happen? I don't know. Ten years ago nobody would have said NBA All-Star game would be on cable. We hope to have events like those on TNT or TBS for sure.

I told him that the NBA will always be there.

My interest and my concern is not so much to ... commemorate what happened 50 years ago but to look at where we are now. We have to realize racism is not going to go away by itself.