Kim Mulkey on Washington Post story release: 'I probably won't read it'

LSU women’s basketball coach Kim Mulkey threatened legal action against the Washington Post if it published a “false story” about her, knowing the Post had been working on an investigative piece for quite some time about the legendary figure in women’s basketball.

The piece in question was published on Saturday, about two hours before LSU took the floor against UCLA in a Sweet 16 game.

Mulkey told ESPN’s Holly Rowe just before the game she hadn’t yet read the piece. She reiterated that she hadn’t read it after the game, while also commenting on the story more broadly.

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She seemed perturbed at the timing of the release, as much as anything else.

“Imagine that. Must have thought y’all would look at it, right?” Kim Mulkey told reporters after topping the Bruins to advance to the Elite Eight. “Get some clicks or it’d be a distraction. No, ma’am. I haven’t read it and I probably won’t read it. I probably will have my attorneys communicate with me to see if there’s anything in there that we need to be concerned about.”

That echoed her earlier comment to Rowe, which suggested the piece was about disrupting LSU’s season. The Tigers are on a quest to repeat as national champions and took an important step in that direction with the win over the Bruins on Saturday.

At some point, presumably, Mulkey or her attorneys will get a chance to read the lengthy profile. Whether they find anything objectionable enough to take legal action remains to be seen.

The piece itself, though, offers an in-depth look at Mulkey going from her childhood to her current perch atop LSU women’s basketball. It provides ample background on how Mulkey’s fiery personality came to be, as well as sharing some unique insight into her family life.

Much of it centered around her now-estranged relationship with her father, Les, who is now 86 years old.

The Washington Post detailed Les’ infidelity to his wife, something that cut the Mulkey family deeply, according to Mulkey’s own autobiography, ‘Won’t Back Down.‘ The Post described how Mulkey felt about it.

“The way Kim saw it, sister Tammy says, her dad hadn’t just walked out on his family,” the piece reads. “He had quit on the people who depended on him, the worst thing a person can do.”

The story also focuses quite a bit on Kim Mulkey’s relationship with gay or queer players, specifically in terms of how she allowed them to dress around the facilities and how she treated them compared to other players.

Mulkey, through her attorneys, either denied that she treated players differently or declined to address some of the alleged issues because they were overly vague.