EXCERPT:
GAINES: “Look, I love and respect Dawn Staley. Two championships in three years. In three years at South Carolina, she's won two championships. I think her record is 109-3, that's unprecedented. So -- so clearly, she's great at what she does, and she's developed many incredible athletes whom I admire, but she's either proven yourself to your point to be entirely incompetent, or a sellout. And personally, I don't -- I don't think she believes what she said. If you watch the video, her silence, the hesitation and that drink of water, I think it spoke volumes. I think she knew she had to be politically correct. And I know about as good as anyone that that pressure exists, and it's real. But the bottom line is she knows perfectly well that men's basketball, it's a totally different sport than women's basketball. That's obvious by the speed of the game, the size of the ball, the sheer amount of layups in women's basketball compared to dunks when a player gets a fast break in men's basketball, the distance of the three point line, the list goes on. So what I think this boils down to is she didn't have the courage to stand with women. It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for her and she blew it.”