MINNEAPOLIS — There are many legends who have played inside Target Center, but only one mattered Saturday night.
"We won a championship every other year for eight years," Thomas Maddux said. "That's a dynasty."
"Watching her highlights, she was good!" Ainslea Pint, who drove in with her family from Iowa, said.
Maya Moore, the four-time WNBA champion whose accolades are a mile long, officially had her number retired and hung in the rafters inside Target Center Saturday.
"Maya Moore has been amazing for the franchise, for basketball," Maddux said.
Among those reminiscing on Moore's career include Lynx Coach Cheryl Reeve, who coached Moore during all four of those WNBA titles.
"Reflecting on the establishing of who the Lynx became, it started with Maya Moore," Reeve said.
Also thinking about that legacy — Indiana Fever rookie sensation Caitlin Clark.
"I remember that Lynx team probably better than anybody, like, as a young girl," Clark, who grew up coming to Minneapolis for Lynx games, said.
"I'm excited to be here and get to be a part of this night, I would be a little bummed if we weren't able to play on the night that this happened," Clark said.
The two have met many times before, including at Clark's first WNBA game as a kid.
"After the game I got to stay and listen to a Q&A. I didn't have a sharpie and obviously I was at the age where I didn't have a phone, and I kinda just ran away from my dad because I wanted to meet the players," Clark said. "I just ran up to her and I just gave her a hug. There's no documentation of that moment, but like obviously, in my brain, that was one of the most pivotal moments in, like, probably my entire basketball career, and probably as a young girl, loving sports, that meant the world to me."
"I didn't get an autograph, I didn't get a picture, I got a hug, which is probably a lot better than both those," she added.
Of course, Moore herself was in attendance to see her jersey retired. Ahead of the game against the Fever, Moore sat down with reporters to reflect on her career and journey that led to this moment.
"I think time will stand still a little bit," Moore said pregame, laughing. "Probably being very overwhelmed with the very talented and quality people I got to do it with as it's going next to the other great players I've gotten to play with."
Moore was also asked what legacy means in a moment like this.
"I tried to leave it all out there, and role model what it looks like to just grind every day, but do it with joy," Moore said. "So, you add that in to all the other greatness that we had around me and you get what we got."
The Lynx beat the Fever 90-80.