Maya Moore walked away from basketball in the prime of her career as arguably the best women’s player in the world. She’d won two college national championships at the University of Connecticut, four WNBA titles with the Minnesota Lynx, two Olympic gold medals, and both a regular-season and WNBA Finals MVP award. When she left the league in 2019 after just eight seasons to focus on social-justice activism—which included working to overturn the conviction of an inmate whom she would then marry—fans wondered how much more damage she would have done to the record books if she had continued to play. Would she now be considered the greatest women’s player of all time?

When I interviewed her two weeks ago, ahead of her induction into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, Moore ruminate

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