Carmelo Anthony tied the tough lessons he learned coming of age playing basketball on the playgrounds of Brooklyn and Baltimore to him becoming one of the sports’ purest scorers and most decorated players ever in a night of speeches full of tears, laughs and calls for community during the induction of quintet of players into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

The trio of Sue Bird, Sylvia Fowles and Maya Moore will be the most dominant class of women’s basketball players to ever enter the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame when they are enshrined this weekend.

Maya Moore has decided to retire officially from playing basketball.

Maya Moore left the WNBA in 2019 to help her now husband Jonathan Irons get his conviction overturned and win his release from prison remains non-committal to returning to the league.

NEW YORK – Basketball star Maya Moore has married Jonathan Irons, the Missouri man she helped work to free from prison after a 22-year-old wrongful conviction. Moore and Irons appeared together on ABC's “Good Morning America” on Wednesday to discuss their social justice efforts — and their relationship. Moore revealed that the two married this year, shortly after Irons was released on July 1. After Moore learned of his case and helped take up his cause, she and Irons developed a friendship on frequent visits to the prison. “I am trying to really just breathe from this long, long battle,” Moore said.