Sam Hinkie

And trying to understand that coming in and understand everyone's deeper motivations coming in, I think, determines the area under the curve, how long this thing is going to be interesting.

Obviously, someone amazing will create real value for you on day one.

should create incredible value for you in the first month.

But if they only stay for 24 or 36 months, you just learned a lot about how much sort of value is under the curve.

What's the most amazing thing that stands out in memory that you've seen somebody do in the first couple months of either working with them or having invested with them?

So maybe this is a strange story, but it's one that comes to mind.

When I was in Houston at the Rockets, we traded for James Harden and he was 22, almost maybe he's 23 years old.

And we traded for him three days before the regular season.

He came in, our team had sort of been somewhat gutted to get him at the time.

And so he came in and I went to the very first practice and he was sort of lacing his shoes up.

And so were the other guys.

And he had met everyone.

He'd met them hours before.

The coach like blows the whistle and was like, Hey, you know, it's time to get going.

Everyone come down here.

All the players get together and coach gives his little thing for a minute.

Here's what we're going to do.

Here's the first station we're going to, et cetera.

And everybody goes to put their hands in.

And James says, tuck your shirts in and tucks his in.