Dawn Staley has won two NCAA titles with South Carolina in the past four seasons. Mingo Nesmith/Icon Sportswire/AP

Dawn Staley , the long-time head coach of the South Carolina women’s basketball team, has said that she doesn’t believe there will be a female head coach in the NBA during her lifetime.

Staley, who recently interviewed to be head coach of the New York Knicks , also suggested that the NBA isn’t ready to have a woman lead an organization.

“If I’m the Knicks coach and you have a five-game losing streak, it’s not going to be about the losing streak, it’s going to be about being a female coach,” Staley told reporters on Tuesday.

“So you, as an organization and a franchise, you have to be prepared for that and strong enough to endure those types of instances when you’re g

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