{"id":21445,"date":"2020-09-17T04:56:04","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T04:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=21445"},"modified":"2020-09-17T04:56:04","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T04:56:04","slug":"maya-moore-marries-jonathan-irons-after-his-release-from-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2020\/09\/17\/maya-moore-marries-jonathan-irons-after-his-release-from-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Maya Moore marries Jonathan Irons after his release from prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"qa-introduction gel-pica-bold\" role=\"introduction\" data-reactid=\".1f6k20zxvh0.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-1\"><span data-reactid=\".1f6k20zxvh0.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-1.0\">WNBA star Maya Moore has married Jonathan Irons &#8211; the man she helped free from prison following his wrongful conviction for assault and burglary.<\/span><\/p>\n<div data-reactid=\".1f6k20zxvh0.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-2\">\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1f6k20zxvh0.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-2.0\"><span data-reactid=\".1f6k20zxvh0.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-2.0.0\">Irons was released in July after 23 years in prison, his conviction having been overturned in March.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1f6k20zxvh0.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-2.1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1f6k20zxvh0.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-3\"><span data-reactid=\".1f6k20zxvh0.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-3.0\">Moore had paused her WNBA career in 2019 to focus on getting him free.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1f6k20zxvh0.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-4\"><span data-reactid=\".1f6k20zxvh0.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-4.0\">&#8220;We got married a couple of months ago and we&#8217;re excited to continue this new chapter of life together,&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"story-body__external-link\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodmorningamerica.com\/living\/story\/wnba-star-maya-moore-married-jonathan-irons-man-73042863\" data-reactid=\".1f6k20zxvh0.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-4.$link-2\"><span data-reactid=\".1f6k20zxvh0.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-4.$link-2.0\">Moore, 31, told Good Morning America.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<ul data-reactid=\".1f6k20zxvh0.0.0.0.1.$list-5\">\n<li class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1f6k20zxvh0.0.0.0.1.$list-5.$list-item-0\"><a class=\"story-body__internal-link\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/basketball\/53677658\" data-reactid=\".1f6k20zxvh0.0.0.0.1.$list-5.$list-item-0.$undefined-link-1\"><span data-reactid=\".1f6k20zxvh0.0.0.0.1.$list-5.$list-item-0.$undefined-link-1.0\">The basketball star who stopped to win a man&#8217;s freedom<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1f6k20zxvh0.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-6\"><span data-reactid=\".1f6k20zxvh0.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-6.0\">Moore was a first-round draft pick for the Minnesota Lynx in 2011, helping them win four championships and being named MVP in the 2014 season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1f6k20zxvh0.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-7\"><span data-reactid=\".1f6k20zxvh0.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-7.0\">The 31-year-old, one of the best players in WNBA history, also has two Olympic and two World Championship gold medals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1f6k20zxvh0.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-8\"><span data-reactid=\".1f6k20zxvh0.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-8.0\">But she gave up her career early in 2019 to help Irons, whom she had met 12 years before and who was serving a 50-year term.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1f6k20zxvh0.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-9\"><span data-reactid=\".1f6k20zxvh0.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-9.0\">Overturning the conviction, Judge Daniel Green called the case &#8220;very weak and circumstantial at best&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1f6k20zxvh0.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-10\"><span data-reactid=\".1f6k20zxvh0.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-10.0\">Moore fell to her knees when she greeted Irons, 40, as he walked out of Jefferson City Correctional Center &#8211; a maximum security prison in rural Missouri &#8211; as a free man.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1f6k20zxvh0.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-11\"><span data-reactid=\".1f6k20zxvh0.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-11.0\">Asked whether she would go back to her playing career, Moore said: &#8220;I&#8217;m hoping sometime in the spring we&#8217;ll be able to have a next step moving forward.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1f6k20zxvh0.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-12\"><span data-reactid=\".1f6k20zxvh0.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-12.0\">&#8220;Right now I am trying to really just breathe from this long, long battle and enjoy and rest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1f6k20zxvh0.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-13\"><span data-reactid=\".1f6k20zxvh0.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-13.0\">&#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of unknowns for a lot of us right now so I&#8217;m still in that camp.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WNBA star Maya Moore has married Jonathan Irons &ndash; the man she helped free from prison following his wrongful conviction for assault and burglary. Irons was released in July after 23 years in prison, his conviction having been overturned in March. Moore had paused her WNBA career in 2019 to focus on getting him free. &ldquo;We got married a couple of months ago and we&rsquo;re excited to continue this new chapter of life together,&rdquo;&nbsp;Moore, 31, told Good Morning America. The basketball star who stopped to win a man&rsquo;s freedom Moore<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21446,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21445"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21447,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21445\/revisions\/21447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}