""No, I don't [believe it will happen in my lifetime]," Staley said Tuesday during SEC media day. "And I hope I'm wrong.""
"Staley, who revealed earlier this year that she would have taken the job if the Knicks had made an offer, said she emphasized in the interview process that the Knicks would have to be prepared to handle the scrutiny she would have endured if she had been hired as the first woman head coach in NBA history."
""If the Knicks have a five-game losing streak, it's not going to be about the losing streak," said Staley, a Naismith Basketball Hall of Famer who has won three national championships at South Carolina. "It's going to be about being a female coach. So you as an organization, a franchise, you have to be prepared for and strong enough to ignore those types of instances when you're going to look to hire a female coach.""
Dawn Staley, a Hall of Famer and three-time national champion at South Carolina, interviewed with the New York Knicks but was not hired. Staley accepted the interview because of long-standing relationships with Knicks executives and said she would have taken the job if offered. Staley expressed doubt that the NBA is ready to hire a woman head coach, citing expected disproportionate scrutiny. She emphasized that a franchise must be prepared to withstand attention that would focus on gender rather than performance and said her experience could inform future candidates and teams.
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