Sam Hinkie Breaks Silence, Will Teach at Stanford
After stepping down as (then) president and general manager of the Philadelphia 76ers in April, Sam Hinkie has been mum on his future plans.
While Hinkie has had a twitter account since 2009, an account he verified was his in his resignation letter earlier this year, the account had been largely unused, at least to the public’s eye, with no tweets, no likes, and following no accounts. Until earlier today, at least.
This afternoon Hinkie fired off ten tweets about what he’s been up to (moving to Palo Alto, California), his future plans (some form of teaching/speaking at Stanford University, eventually getting back into basketball), and, perhaps most surprisingly, a desire to do more snowboarding.
The tweets are the first public comments from Hinkie since stepping down as president and general manager. An article from Jordan Brenner of ESPN The Magazine came out with quotes from Hinkie in June, but the interview was conducted prior to Hinkie leaving the organization.
The tweets are embedded below.
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
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
3 | …backpacked around the world—I surely would have snowboarded more.
— Sam Hinkie (@samhinkie) September 14, 2016
4 | But we’re parents, so we’re here planting seeds for tomorrow. Especially their tomorrow.
— Sam Hinkie (@samhinkie) September 14, 2016
5 | I’ve always been focused on learning as fast as I can & figuring out how I can do things better. So a period like this felt super rare.
— Sam Hinkie (@samhinkie) September 14, 2016
6 | And there may be no better place on the planet to learn right now than right here.
— Sam Hinkie (@samhinkie) September 14, 2016
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
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
9 | …watch tons of basketball, and soak up all that I can. Oh, and snowboard. For sure snowboard.
— Sam Hinkie (@samhinkie) September 14, 2016
10| In the meantime, if you read anything good, send it my way.
— Sam Hinkie (@samhinkie) September 14, 2016
