WNBA Star Maya Moore Left the Game for Justice

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🗓️ 18 June 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Maya Moore was a WNBA superstar with multiple championships, Olympic gold medals and pretty much every achievement in the sport to her name...when she walked away from the game in 2019. Her reasons were mysterious at the time, but Moore's focus became clear: to free a man from prison who she believes has been wrongfully convicted. ESPN's Katie Barnes tells us about Moore's impact on the case, what it means for a player of her talent to have left basketball, and how her activism ties to the current moment around sports and social justice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Katie, just put in context for people.
0:06.2	How good is Maya Moore and what does it mean that someone like her walked away from the game?
0:15.2	Maya Moore is one of the greatest basketball players of all time.
0:22.5	Katie Barnes is the writer for ESPNW.
0:26.3	She won four WMBA championships in eight years with the links.
0:31.9	Here is more. More.
0:34.3	That's it.
0:38.2	Title number four
0:39.5	for the Minnesota Reims Dynasty.
0:43.6	He won a WMBA MVP.
0:46.0	She's got two national championships at Yukon.
0:48.6	Moore creating her own shot and knocks it down.
0:52.5	78 and all.
0:54.1	Connecticut has won the national championship again.
0:59.6	She's two Olympic gold medals, and she's played in multiple world championships.
1:04.4	The United States women's Olympic basketball team showing perfection here in Rio.
1:11.6	She's done everything on the court that can be done by any basketball player.
1:18.6	And she gave all of it up to help get someone out of prison.
1:26.6	I don't like comparing women and men, but it is like Michael George's to help get someone out of prison.
1:30.3	I don't like comparing women and men, but it is like Michael Jordan walking away in 93.
1:34.8	It was sudden, unexpected.
1:38.3	It's an amazing story and one that I never expected to happen.
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