Sam Hinkie was reportedly “mortified” his bloviating and interesting 13-page resignation letter became public. He totally wrote that for only the 76ers owners, yes sir. It was them and them only he intended to tell, “If you need to reach me— now or later—I am available at [redacted] and I suspect someday soon on Twitter via @samhinkie.”
In a shocking turn of events to Hinkie, more than just a handful of 76ers owners awaited his tweets.
Those began today:
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
If you’re a Hinkie hater, he’s trying to tell you he’s athletic and actually watches the games. Got it?
If you’re an unabashed fan of his, gather that he’s still fully invested in the cult of Silicon Valley and intellectual enough to teach at Stanford. In other words, he’s light years ahead.
