"I would have had to do it. Not just for me. For women. To break [that door] open. I would have had to. It's the New York Knicks. I'm from Philly. But it's the freaking New York Knicks. ... I shot myself in the foot by ... being inquisitive and asking all those darn questions."
"How, if you hired me as the first female [head] coach in the NBA, would it impact your daily job? Because it would,"
"You're gonna be asked questions that you don't have to answer if you're a male coach. There's gonna be the media and all this other stuff that you have to deal with that you didn't have to deal with and don't have to deal with when you hire a male."
Dawn Staley said she would have taken the New York Knicks head coaching job had it been offered after a formal interview. She framed accepting the position as a necessary step to break barriers for women and noted personal ties to New York and Philadelphia. Staley said she prepared well for the interview but worried she hurt her chances by asking whether the organization understood how hiring the first woman NBA head coach would change daily operations and media scrutiny. She said the question appeared to change the interview energy. The Knicks hired Mike Brown in early July.
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