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At 12:32 p.m. EST, we made first contact.
Sam Hinkie sent his first tweet from his account that has laid dormant for a few years now. Hinkie had initially mentioned in his resignation letter that he would start to tweet in the future and that time has finally come. His bio currently reads, "Husband. Dad. Leader. Reader. Formerly a bunch of things, including President & General Manager of the Philadelphia 76ers."
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
Build their orchard, Sam.
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
Professor Hinkie!
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
He should check out that Liberty Ballers website...
Anyway, be sure to follow Hinkie on Twitter for his next timeline-stopping life update (@samhinkie).