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Dawn Staley said if she’d been offered nan New York Knicks caput coaching job, she would person felt compelled to time off South Carolina – wherever she has won 3 assemblage nationalist championships – to return nan position.
Staley interviewed pinch nan Knicks earlier they hired Mike Brown past month.
“I would person had to do it. Not conscionable for me. For women. To break [that door] open,” Staley said connected nan Post Moves podcast pinch Aliyah Boston of nan Indiana Fever and erstwhile WNBA prima Candace Parker. “I would person had to. It’s nan New York Knicks. I’m from Philly. But it’s nan freaking New York Knicks.”
New York interviewed respective different candidates for nan position, including erstwhile Charlotte Hornets coach James Borrego, erstwhile Memphis Grizzlies coach Taylor Jenkins and Minnesota Timberwolves adjunct Micah Nori earlier opting for Brown.
Staley said she thought she did good successful nan interview. However, she questioned whether she whitethorn person jeopardized her chances of landing nan NBA occupation erstwhile she asked Knicks officials if they were afloat prepared for nan effects of hiring nan league’s first female caput coach.
“How, if you hired maine arsenic nan first female [head] coach successful nan NBA, would it effect your regular job? Because it would,” Staley said. “You’re going to beryllium asked questions that you don’t person to reply if you’re a antheral coach. There’s going to beryllium nan media and each this different worldly that you person to woody pinch that you didn’t person to woody pinch and don’t person to woody pinch erstwhile you prosecute a male. That sewage them to thinking, ‘Maybe she’s right.’”
Staley said she felt nan power alteration aft that.
“So, I changeable myself successful nan ft by being inquisitive and asking each those darn questions,” Staley said.
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