September 14, 2016
When his resignation letter surfaced back in April, Sam Hinkie had confirmed that the Twitter handle @samhinkie (an egg that had never tweeted) was in fact him. The former Sixers GM and president of basketball operations hinted that he might surface on social media “someday soon.”
That day is Wednesday, September 14th. In true Hinkie fashion, he sent a string of 10 tweets, updating the world on what he’s up to. Right off the bat, we learned that he moved out of the area:
1 | Writing this from a Starbucks in Palo Alto, CA. It’s 5 blocks from our house. My wife and I brought our boys here for this next chapter.
— Sam Hinkie (@samhinkie) September 14, 2016
He’s taking a year off from basketball and focusing on his kids:
2 | The more I thought about it, the more obvious it became that a sort of gap year here was right. If we were younger, maybe we’d have…
— Sam Hinkie (@samhinkie) September 14, 2016
The Warriors play within an hour’s driving distance of his new home. He’s going to study Silicon Valley trends in addition to watching basketball:
7 | My hope is to learn even more about how what’s happening here will impact the basketball world—it’s impacting most everything else.
— Sam Hinkie (@samhinkie) September 14, 2016
He’ll teach at Stanford:
8 | While I wait to see what’s next for us, I’ll teach a little (at Stanford), keep talking to the long list of people I can learn from,…
— Sam Hinkie (@samhinkie) September 14, 2016
And most importantly, he’s going to hit the slopes:
9 | …watch tons of basketball, and soak up all that I can. Oh, and snowboard. For sure snowboard.
— Sam Hinkie (@samhinkie) September 14, 2016
Hinkie is an extremely bright guy, and everyone knew he would land on his feet. I just had no idea he was so into snowboarding. Look out, Big Bear:
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