{"id":29672,"date":"2025-08-30T05:03:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T09:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/dawn-staley-reveals-she-would-accept-to-coach-the-knicks-for-a-big-reason\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T05:03:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T09:03:17","slug":"dawn-staley-reveals-she-would-accept-to-coach-the-knicks-for-a-big-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nba\/dawn-staley-reveals-she-would-accept-to-coach-the-knicks-for-a-big-reason\/","title":{"rendered":"Dawn Staley Reveals: She Would Accept to Coach the Knicks for a Big Reason"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Dawn Staley Reveals Details of Her Interview to Coach the Knicks<\/h2>\n\nThe renowned women&#8217;s basketball coach, Dawn Staley, shared details about her interview for the head coaching position of the New York Knicks. In a conversation on the &#8220;Post Moves&#8221; podcast, Staley revealed that, had she received the offer, she would have accepted it.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cI would have had to do it. Not just for me. For women. To open [that door],\u201d Staley said.<\/p>\n<cite>Dawn Staley<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nStaley, who currently coaches the University of South Carolina women&#8217;s team, explained that the opportunity to coach the Knicks was significant, especially because of the importance of breaking barriers for women in basketball.\n\nThe coach, a member of the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame and with three national championships to her name, also mentioned that the interview with the Knicks was exhaustive. However, she speculated that her own questions about how the team would adapt to having a female head coach might have affected her chances.\n\nStaley reflected on how being the first full-time female coach in the NBA would entail additional challenges for the organization, including increased media attention and questions that would not be asked of male coaches.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cHow, if I were hired as the first female [head] coach in the NBA, would it impact their daily work? Because it would,\u201d Staley said, referring to her interview with the Knicks.<\/p>\n<cite>Dawn Staley<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nFinally, the Knicks chose to hire Mike Brown as their head coach. In addition to Staley, the team interviewed other candidates, including Taylor Jenkins, James Borrego, and Micah Nori, before making their decision.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a3.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2024%2F1105%2Fr1410561_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n<em>Image description: Ethan Miller\/Getty Images<\/em>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dawn Staley Reveals Details of Her Interview to Coach the Knicks The renowned women&#8217;s basketball coach, Dawn Staley, shared details about her interview for the head coaching position of the New York Knicks. In a conversation on the &#8220;Post Moves&#8221; podcast, Staley revealed that, had she received the offer, she would have accepted it. \u201cI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[718,7940,103,1245],"class_list":{"0":"post-29672","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-coach","9":"tag-dawn-staley","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-new-york-knicks"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}