Sam Hinkie made his first public comments since he stepped down as general manager of the Philadelphia 76ers in a series of Twitter posts.

"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," wrote Hinkie. "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 backpacked around the world—I surely would have snowboarded more.

"But we’re parents, so we’re here planting seeds for tomorrow. Especially their tomorrow.

"I’ve always been focused on learning as fast as I can and figuring out how I can do things better. So a period like this felt super rare. And there may be no better place on the planet to learn right now than right here. My hope is to learn even more about how what’s happening here will impact the basketball world—it’s impacting most everything else.

"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, watch tons of basketball, and soak up all that I can. Oh, and snowboard. For sure snowboard.

"In the meantime, if you read anything good, send it my way."