WNBA legend Maya Moore will have her jersey retired by the Minnesota Lynx.
The team announced this week that they will hang her No. 23 in the rafters on Aug. 24. That game will come against the Indiana Fever, a team that Moore played twice in the WNBA Finals in her career. It could also feature her biggest fan, Caitlin Clark.
Clark is largely expected to join the Fever as the No. 1 pick in this year’s WNBA draft. Moore was there for Clark’s final regular season game in Iowa City, where she broke Pete Maravich’s NCAA D-I scoring record.
“I hope people saw me as someone who gave all but also somebody who looked beyond the craft that I pursued,” Morre said in the announcement. She stepped away from basketball in 2019 to help her now-husband Jonathan Irons win his release from prison after he was wrongly incarcerated. Moore only officially retired last year.
A star at UConn, Moore won two national championships before being drafted No. 1 overall by Minnesota in 2011. She won Rookie of the Year that year, and went on to win four WNBA championships with Minnesota, being named Finals MVP in 2013 and league MVP in 2014.
She’s the only player in WNBA history with four 40-plus point games.
Moore is set to be inducted into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame on April 27.