South Carolina women's basketball coach Dawn Staley has interviewed for head coaching jobs in the NBA , most recently with the New York Knicks . However, she doesn't believe the league is getting a female head coach anytime soon.

"If I'm the Knicks coach and you have a five-game losing streak, it's not going to be about the losing streak," Staley said during Tuesday's SEC media day. "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."

Staley said she took the interview with the Knicks because she has known team president Leon Rose for decades. The team ultimately hired Mike Brown, who was most recently the coach of the S

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