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By Photography by When Maya Moore met Jonathan Irons, her presence brought him to tears. “She was so warm and loving and kind and she looked me in the eye.

tennis champion would have turned 78.Moore stepped away from her basketball career in 2019 to seek justice for Jonathan Irons, who was serving a 50-year prison sentence after being wrongly convicted of burglary and assault. Irons’ conviction was overturned last year and he was freed.

You could say that Maya Moore, 31, and Jonathan Irons, 40, found love in a hopeless place. The WNBA star, who left professional basketball two seasons ago to focus on criminal justice reform, announced her marriage to Irons, the wrongfully-convicted man who she helped free from prison earlier this year.

Good Morning America, where they shared the news of their marriage.“We wanted to announce today that we're super excited to continue the work that we’ve been doing together, but doing it as a married couple,” Moore said.

Maya Moore has found love with Jonathan Irons.

the campaign to free Jonathan Irons. Irons, who is now 40, had been serving a 50-year prison sentence over the shooting of a homeowner during a robbery when Irons was 16.

Maya Moore and Jonathan Irons are married!

Maya Moore left the league last year to focus her efforts on helping free Jonathan Irons from a wrongful conviction that carried a 50-year prison sentence. On July 1, Moore succeeded and Irons was released from prison.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorRobin Roberts and ESPN Films have teamed on a documentary about WNBA star-turned activist Maya Moore and her years-long fight to free a man from prison for a crime he did not commit.The untitled documentary project, produced in partnership with Roberts’ Rock’n Robin Productions, will explore Moore’s unwavering faith; her connection with Jonathan Irons, a man wrongfully convicted and serving a prison sentence for burglary and assault; and how she stepped away