This WNBA star uses Bible verse to explain why she’s leaving pro basketball

Feb 07, 2019

WNBA star Maya Moore is leaving professional basketball for family.

Moore, a player for the Minnesota Lynx, wrote in a piece for The Players’ Tribune that she won’t be playing professional basketball this upcoming season after she considered her purpose.

• “I learned a long time ago that my purpose is to know Jesus and to make Him known,” she said.

• She pointed to the Bible verse Colossians 3:23, which she often uses when she signs autographs for fans.

• The entire verse reads: “And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men.”

Moore is using that verse to influence her choices this year:

• “My announcement is about how I’m shifting the focus to the whatever,” she wrote. “My focus in 2019 will not be on professional basketball, but will instead be on the people in my family, as well as on investing my time in some ministry dreams that have been stirring in my heart for many years.”

Read more: You can read “The Shift” at the Players’ Tribune.