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Dawn Staley Would Reportedly “Be Open to Having Discussions” With Sixers
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It’s been a full week since the 76ers fired head coach Brett Brown, and names are floating around out there. Some make sense, like Jay Wright and Tyronn Lue. Others don’t make much sense at all, like Jason Kidd and John Lucas.
Here’s another name, and this one is intriguing, a report from WACH TV in Columbia:
Dawn Staley is happy with her current job as the head women’s basketball coach at the University of South Carolina. But if the Philadelphia 76ers were to show interest in hiring her as their next head coach, she wouldn’t ignore those calls.
According to a source close to the USC women’s basketball program, WACH FOX has been told that Staley would be open to having discussions with her hometown team if they were to reach out to her.
Dawn Staley? Why the hell not? Maybe she could get Ben Simmons to shoot the basketball or pull out the best of Joel Embiid on a consistent basis.
She’s certainly qualified for the job, with eight years of playing experience in which she was named an All-Star six times and won three Olympic gold medals. As a coach, she won a national title, has a career .728 winning percentage, and won eight regular season conference titles and nine tournament titles. Carolina might have won it all again this season if COVID hadn’t cancelled the tournament. Oh yeah, she’s also the Team USA women’s head coach.
She’s also from here, so she’s a blue collar, hard-working, lunch-pail carrying blah blah, you know what I mean.
There’s never been a female head coach in the NBA, so any question of “would these guys listen to a woman” is rendered N/A until we actually clear that hurdle. If we’re looking at resumes, she’s certainly as qualified as any of these NBA retreads, who haven’t won anything anywhere. She’s probably more qualified.
Interesting name. The Sixers should reach out and give her an interview, an actual interview and not just some fake woke stuff for brownie points.
Kevin has been writing about Philadelphia sports since 2009. He spent seven years in the CBS 3 sports department and started with the Union during the team's 2010 inaugural season. He went to the academic powerhouses of Boyertown High School and West Virginia University. email - k.kinkead@sportradar.com