PHILADELPHIA — A few weeks ago, Dawn Staley came back home.
Not just to Philadelphia, and not even just to North Philadelphia, where the world now knows her roots proudly stand. But to Temple’s campus, a place Staley still calls one of her spiritual homes, just over a mile from the 2500 block of West Diamond Avenue — Dawn Staley Way, as the street sign says.
The feeling was mutual on North Broad, made clear by Temple athletic director Arthur Johnson. No matter that he came here by way of Texas, Georgia, Arizona State, and North Carolina. He knew. And he made that clear as he introduced Staley to a crowd attending a conversation with new Owls women’s basketball coach Diane Richardson.
