re: Washington Post (different writer) wrote article on Kim Mulkey 3 months ago (paywall link)

Perhaps the answer is that Mulkey engages with her players with far more emotional intelligence than the press or basketball audience may imagine. Much of her reputation for hardheartedness stems from tension with Brittney Griner, who revealed she felt pressure to closet her sexuality at Baylor, the Baptist school where Mulkey won three titles. The press ran with the implication and etched Mulkey as an uncaring bigot. This is overdrawn, and Griner has since acknowledged it. In fact, in March 2013 Mulkey gave an interview to OutSports while Griner was still on the team. She remarked that Griner had had “to endure more than any player I’ve ever had to coach” in the way of ugliness from crowds and asserted that she cared not at all if a player was gay and would never even ask the question.

“So it doesn’t matter to you?” the reporter asked.?“No,” Mulkey said.