Maya Moore and Jonathan Irons - Basketball legend and husband on love and justice

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🗓️ 14 February 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Maya Moore is a basketball legend. In college at UCONN, Moore was a two-time Naismith College Player of the Year, two-time NCAA champion and a four-time First-Team All-American.

The first overall pick in the 2011 WNBA Draft by Minnesota, Moore won four WNBA titles in her eight seasons, including the 2014 WNBA MVP and six All-Star selections. Her number 23 is retired by the Lynx. Moore also represented the United States at the Olympics and won two Gold Medals.

In 2019, Moore took a sabbatical from basketball to help secure the release of Jonathan Irons, who was serving a 50-year sentence that started when he was 16 years old. She was successful in July of 2020 in securing his release and soon after, married Jonathan. They had their son JJ in 2022.

In 2023, Moore and Irons released their book "Love and Justice."

Today on the podcast, Maya Moore and Jonthan Irons share their powerful story of love, justice and their unwavering faith in Jesus.

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0:00.0	This is the Sports Spectrum podcast.
0:04.6	Matt Forte at the 15 to the 20.
0:06.5	Splits defenders crossing midfield, a first down to run, a 42-yard run.
0:11.2	Where Sports and Faith Connect.
0:13.3	Forte, diving catch, touchdown!
0:17.3	Forte, who gets the call, he'll slice his way in for the touchdown.
0:21.4	And now here's your host, former NFL Pro Bowl running back, Matt Forte.
0:40.8	Welcome to the Sports Spectrum podcast.
0:45.5	I'm Matt Forte along with Jason Romano, Jay Nice, on the ones and twos.
0:49.9	And today, guys, if you're listening, this is a special episode.
0:55.5	We have Ms. Maya Moore and Jonathan Irons on the episode today.
0:57.3	And I want to get into it. It's going to be a longer lead in because I want to honor them because I cannot just introduce them by their name and just say, hey, welcome to the show.
1:04.8	I have to read down some of Maya's accolades and Jonathan as well.
1:09.8	But Maya Moore is college.
1:13.4	She went to college and played basketball at Yukon.
1:15.3	She's hailing from the great southern state of Georgia.
1:18.6	And she's a two-time Naismith college player of the year in 2009 in 2011, two-time NCAA champion, four-time first-team All-American, first overall pick in the 2011 WNBA
1:31.2	draft by Minnesota. She played eight seasons with Minnesota. She's a four-time WNBA champion.
1:39.5	She's also a WMBA finals MVP in 13 and 14 and a six-time WMBA All-Star.
1:49.1	Her number 23, like Jordan, is retired by the Minnesota Lynx.
1:54.5	She's a two-time team USA Olympic gold medalist as well.
2:03.5	But that's not the most important part about her. She's active in social justice and criminal justice reform. She won the 2021 Arthur Ash Award for
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