EditorialFans at the Target Center, home of the WNBA’s Minnesota Lynx and host of this year’s Women’s Final Four NCAA Tournament, in Minneapolis, April 1, 2022.(Andrea Ellen Reed/The New York Times)
EditorialThe empty offices of the Minnesota Timberwolves and Lynx organization in downtown Minneapolis, on Nov. 13, 2020. (Andrea Ellen Reed/The New York Times)
EditorialThe WNBA basketball semifinal round playoff series game between the Seattle Storm and the Minnesota Lynx, in Bradenton, Fla., on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020. (Octavio Jones/The New York Times)
EditorialSeattle Storm guard Sue Bird during a game against the Minnesota Lynx at the Feld Entertainment facility in Palmetto, Fla., Sept. 24, 2020. (Octavio Jones/The New York Times)
EditorialMinnesota Lynx star Maya Moore, who stepped away from basketball last year in part to help Jonathan Irons with his appeal, shoots hoops at the faith-based resource center City of Refuge, in Atlanta, May 31, 2019. (Nina Robinson/The New York Times)
EditorialMaya Moore, a star with the WNBA's Minnesota Lynx, at her old middle school for a Black History Month workshop in Jefferson City, Mo., Feb. 28, 2019. (Nina Robinson/The New York Times)
EditorialMaya Moore, the WNBA star, on her way to visit an inmate whom she feels was wrongly convicted, in Jefferson City, Mo., March 1, 2019. (Nina Robinson/The New York Times)
EditorialMaya Moore, the WNBA star, on her way to visit an inmate whom she feels was wrongly convicted, in Jefferson City, Mo., March 1, 2019. (Nina Robinson/The New York Times)