On Wednesday, Irons abandoned a free man, and Moore was one of the first to hug him.
“Thank goodness it’s over,” Moore said in a video of the Irons launch he posted on his Instagram, captioned with the word “FREEDOM.”
The two met in 1998, when Moore was just 16 years old, in a prison ministry. Irons had been convicted of robbery and assault on an owner with a pistol, a conviction that was overturned by a judge in March.
“I feel like I can live life now,” Irons said Wednesday. “I am free, I am blessed, I just want to live my life worthy of God’s help and influence … I thank all those who supported me, Maya and her family.”
A star at its best
Moore, a basketball superstar at his best, announced in January that he would skip a second season to focus on criminal justice reform.
“When we take the time to stand up for people and shine a light in a dark place, not everyone will like it,” he said. “When it costs your comfort or maybe something you just want to see and enjoy, I understand that.
“Entertainment is a place where you want to relax and not have to think about the worries of the world, but we are in the world and the world is broken. So congratulations to the people who sacrifice, who pay the cost of a platform, of a job, money to defend something bigger than yourself and, at the end of the day, if we remember that we are human beings first, I think it will make it a little less controversial. “
She is considered one of the best female basketball players and winners of all time. Her resume is full of superlatives. Selected by the Minnesota Lynx as the No. 1 overall pick in the 2011 WNBA draft, Moore won the league’s Rookie of the Year award and her first WNBA title in her first season. She added titles in 2013, 2015, and 2017, winning the WNBA Finals MVP Awards in 2013 and the MVP WNBA Award in 2014.
As a member of the US team, Moore won Olympic gold in 2012 and 2016, as well as two world championships in 2010 and 2014. When he played at the University of Connecticut college, the Huskies were undefeated in consecutive seasons, winning national titles in 2009 and 2010.
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