Right after The Washington Post dropped its feature story Saturday on LSU women’s basketball coach Kim Mulkey, she questioned the timing of its release.
Before the profile was published, Mulkey to call it a “hit piece” during a press conference last weekend and to threaten a lawsuit against the paper if it published anything she thought was untrue. The feature story by Washington Post reporter Kent Babb skewed more toward a thorough portrait of a great but complicated coach, rather than an explosive bombshell report. But Mulkey still seemed defensive about when asked about it.
Reacting to it in an interview with ESPN’s Holly Rowe, Mulkey questioned why the story was published Saturday not long before LSU’s Sweet 16 game against LSU. For timeliness, it’s common in journalism to publish big features around major events related to the subject of the story.
“Are you really surprised by the timing of it?” Mulkey asked Rowe. “I can tell you I haven’t read it; [I] don’t know that I will read it. I’ll leave that up to my attorneys.”
Kim Mulkey reacts to the publishing of the Washington Post story on her—an hour and a half before LSU’s Sweet 16 matchup.
“Are you really surprised by the timing of it?”pic.twitter.com/wEoYcTc51H
— Front Office Sports (@FOS) March 30, 2024
We’re not sure if Mulkey will ever comment on the feature story, as she will likely continue to point to her legal team for an answer.
