It’s been quite an offseason for Dawn Staley, and you know why. Fresh off another dominant run with South Carolina, the unthinkable happened: her name popped up in NBA circles! When the Knicks fired Tom Thibodeau in June, Staley became a real candidate to replace him.

Staley reportedly met with the NY side’s front office, which had the whole community excited. Could one of college basketball’s greatest female coaches leap to the pros? In the end, they went with Mike Brown, but for a brief moment, fans imagined her pacing the sidelines under the bright lights of Madison Square Garden.

When the Gamecocks’ head coach sat down for her interview with the Knicks, it wasn’t your typical coaching interview. It carried the weight of breaking barriers for women in basketball. She appreciated tha

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