{"id":30655,"date":"2025-09-02T05:07:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T09:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/dawn-staley-reveals-she-would-accept-to-coach-the-knicks-for-a-bigger-reason\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T05:07:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T09:07:17","slug":"dawn-staley-reveals-she-would-accept-to-coach-the-knicks-for-a-bigger-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nba\/dawn-staley-reveals-she-would-accept-to-coach-the-knicks-for-a-bigger-reason\/","title":{"rendered":"Dawn Staley Reveals: She Would Accept to Coach the Knicks for a Bigger Reason"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Dawn Staley Reveals Details of Her Interview with the Knicks<\/h2>\n\nSouth Carolina women&#8217;s basketball coach Dawn Staley revealed that she would have accepted the offer to coach the New York Knicks if it had been offered to her. Staley, who had a formal interview for the position, shared her reflections on the &#8220;Post Moves&#8221; podcast with WNBA star Aliyah Boston and former player Candace Parker.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p>\u201cI would have had to do it. Not just for me. For the women. To open [that door],\u201d Staley commented.<\/p>\n\n<cite>Dawn Staley<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nStaley, a member of the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame, explained that the opportunity to coach the Knicks was significant, especially because of the importance of breaking barriers for women in sports.\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\nThe 55-year-old coach, who has led the Gamecocks to three national championships, felt well-prepared for the interview. However, she admitted that she may have hurt her chances by questioning the Knicks&#8217; management about how hiring the first full-time female coach in the NBA would impact the organization.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p>\u201cHow, if they hired me as the first female [head] coach in the NBA, would it impact their daily work? Because I would,\u201d Staley recounted about her questions during the interview.<\/p>\n\n<cite>Dawn Staley<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nStaley also noted that the arrival of a female coach would entail media attention and additional questions that male coaches do not face.\n\nFinally, the Knicks hired Mike Brown as head coach in early July.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dawn Staley Reveals Details of Her Interview with the Knicks South Carolina women&#8217;s basketball coach Dawn Staley revealed that she would have accepted the offer to coach the New York Knicks if it had been offered to her. Staley, who had a formal interview for the position, shared her reflections on the &#8220;Post Moves&#8221; podcast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[718,7940,103,1245],"class_list":{"0":"post-30655","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\/30655","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=30655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}