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Sam Hinkie Finally Tweets, Announces He’ll be Teaching at Stanford
By Jim Adair
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@SamHinkie joined Twitter in July 2009. When Hinkie was hired to be the Sixers’ GM, the account – which had no pictures, bio, avi, or tweets – gained some followers. When he resigned from the Sixers and mentioned that it was in fact his handle in his letter, the account gained even more followers. After having an account for over seven years, he finally tweeted:
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
If it’s anything like his resignation letter, I’ll see you at the tweet that starts “1,872 | “.
UPDATE: He’s got a new gig.
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
When he's not writing about sports here or ranting about them on Twitter, Jim is probably watching X-Files on Netflix or drinking a beer somewhere. Jim has nothing against hockey, it's just not his style. He once met Duce Staley at a Sixers game.