Maya Moore will not compete in the 2020 Olympics. Instead, she will focus on freeing a Missouri prison inmate she believes was wrongly convicted.
Moore met Irons in 2017 when she visited the Jefferson City Correctional Center. Since then, she has helped pay for his defense team and has attended several of his courtroom hearings.
"Over the last year we have been in frequent contact with Maya around the great work in criminal justice reform and ministry in which she is fully engaged," Lynx coach and general manager Cheryl Reeve said in."We are proud of the ways that Maya is advocating for justice and using her platform to impact social change."
Moore, 30, told the Times she isn't ready to retire, but her absence from the upcoming Olympics is a major loss for women's basketball. “We are going to miss Maya tremendously, but we also respect her decision,” U.S. national team director Carol Callan told the Times."We know how devoted she is to what she believes in, and that what she is doing is remarkable.”
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