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Staley would have been first female NBA head coach
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Knicks chose to hire Mike Brown for head coach role
Dawn Staley said if she’d been offered the New York Knicks head coaching job, she would have felt compelled to leave South Carolina – where she has won three college national championships – to take the position.
Staley interviewed with the Knicks before they hired Mike Brown last month.
“I would have had to do it. Not just for me. For women. To break [that door]open,” Staley said on the Post Moves podcast with Aliyah Boston of the Indiana Fever and former WNBA star Candace Parker. “I would have had to. It’s the New York Knicks. I’m from Philly. But it’s the freaking New York Knicks.”
