I'm Jonathan K. Parton. Welcome to K-Part. Maya Moore and Jonathan Irons couldn't have been

more different when they met through her godparents in 2007. She was an Olympic gold medalist in

Star of the WNBA. He was behind bars, serving a 50-year sentence for burglary and assault.

Today, they are Mr. and Mrs. Irons. Maya Moore Irons and officially announced her retirement from

basketball on January 16th. Jonathan Irons got his conviction overturned thanks to efforts by Maya.

They've written about it all in their new book Love and Justice, a story of triumph on two different

courts. In this conversation, first recorded for Washington Post Live on January 19th,

Maya and Jonathan talk about how they met, why she worked so hard to prove his innocence,

and the need for transparency in convictions. It's not necessarily the the easiest way when you

have transparency, but it's the safest way to ensure that the right thing can be done. Just like we

had transparency on Jonathan's case and when light was put on it, the right thing was done.

And so if anybody is running away from transparency, that's generally a red flag that there might not

be the best practices going on. Maya, let me start before we get into the book. You took a

break from Pro Basketball to work on Jonathan's case full-time on Monday, MLK Day. You officially

announced your retirement from the game. How hard was it to make that decision?

Well, my journey through my pro career was an unexpected ride. I think as the years were

building and I was growing and maturing and just continuing to figure out what matters most to me

in my life, I was sensing a need to shift my presence from the full-time

pro space to being more rooted at home, to have a rhythm that allowed me to really rest and

create some more space for the deep work that I was desiring and that was to come. And so much of

that deep work was centered around Jonathan's fight for freedom. So it wasn't hard in a sense that

I wasn't wrestling with, should I or shouldn't I? I think it was just hard in the sense of how do I do

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