Kim Mulkey goes nuclear.
At some point after rumors began circulating on social media a couple of main investigative piece that the Washington Submit was planning to publish on the LSU coach, now in her third 12 months in Baton Rouge, Mulkey gave a fiery assertion Saturday throughout the Tigers’ press convention.
Mulkey, who final 12 months led LSU to its first nationwide title in girls’s basketball, mentioned a reporter from the Submit has been attempting to “put a success piece collectively” for 2 years. She mentioned she has “employed the most effective defamation legislation agency within the nation, and I’ll sue the Washington Submit in the event that they publish a false story on me. Not many individuals are ready to carry these sorts of journalists accountable however I’m, and I’ll do it.”
Mulkey mentioned the reporter, Kent Babb, had contacted each former coaches who labored beneath Mulkey and former gamers — together with ones who’ve beforehand voiced displeasure together with her — and tried to “trick” the coaches into speaking whereas providing gamers anonymity in the event that they “say detrimental issues about me.” She mentioned the reporter instructed the coaches he was with Mulkey in Baton Rouge, implying that she’d be nice with them talking. She mentioned Saturday that these coaches felt “distraught” and “fully misled.”
A Washington Submit spokesperson declined to remark.
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Mulkey mentioned she’d beforehand instructed the reporter she wouldn’t meet with him as a result of she “didn’t admire” a chunk he wrote on LSU soccer coach Brian Kelly.
“That is precisely why folks don’t belief journalists and the media anymore,” Mulkey mentioned. “It’s these sorts of sleazy ways and hatchet jobs that individuals are uninterested in. I’m fed up, and I’m not going to let the Washington Submit assault this college, this superior crew or me with no battle.”
Mulkey mentioned the Submit contacted LSU earlier this week, on Tuesday “with greater than a dozen questions,” and mentioned the deadline to reply was Thursday. The Tigers performed their first sport of the NCAA Event on Friday, hanging on for a 70-60 win over 14th-seeded Rice. She known as it “a ridiculous deadline.”
Mulkey mentioned she seen the timing as a ploy by the Submit to distract her from the postseason, the place the Tigers are attempting to develop into the primary crew since 2016 to repeat on the nationwide championships.
“It’s ain’t gonna work, buddy,” Mulkey mentioned.