Sam Hinkie

The assistant GM of the Rockets right now is Eli Whitus, who I got to know in, must have been 2008.

At the time, he had just started a blog.

But prior to that, there had been a sort of a message board, an open forum where people would post all sorts of interesting analysis.

Back then it was called APBR metrics.

It was the way in which people communicated, sort of think of it like,

Hacker News or something today in this space at the time.

And there was a prolific poster who was quite good under a pen name.

And after a while, it became clear that that person sort of doxed themselves.

Think of it like someone like Slate Star Codex or something where Eli said, you know what?

I'll go ahead and say that was me.

That was me that's been doing it all this time.

It's like, oh, that's interesting because there's this trove of information.

It's him.

And then at the same time, he started this blog.

And the first blog post for years, I've told people, I tell people now, if you see something awesome, send it to me.

I'd love to read it.

he has his first blog post.

And by the end of the first day, four or five people have sent it to me and it's amazing work.

And I'm like, Oh, that's wild.

And I'd heard a little bit about him from another friend of mine.