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Kevin Durant has reportedly already earned more than his 2026-27 salary with the Rockets, a little less than two months before the regular season kicks off. According to Joe Pompliano, the renowned sports and business journalist, Kevin Durant’s investment in Hugging Face has earned him a profit of approximately $60 million after Nvidia’s recent acquisition of the business. “Kevin Durant and his business partner, Rich Kleiman, invested in Hugging Face’s seed & Series A fundraising rounds. Nvidia just acquired the company for $12.9 billion, and since I’m told Durant invested $100,000 in the seed round and $150,000 in the Series A, he likely made more than $60 million on this investment alone,” Pompliano wrote on X. “That is one of the best athlete investments ever (and more money than Durant will make playing in the NBA this season),” he further added. Kevin Durant is set to earn $43.9 million for the 2026-27 NBA season with the Rockets. This investment has already yielded him more than that. Hugging Face is a platform that serves as a central hub for open-source artificial intelligence and machine learning. It is used to share, discover, test, and deploy pre-trained models, datasets, and interactive AI web applications. Durant already has a reported net worth of $400 million and has already added over $60 million to his income this year. But Durant does not necessarily view money as a good thing. He feels it changes the type of relationships he has with people and often makes him second-guess their intentions. The Rockets’ veteran superstar recently sat down for a conversation with Speedy Morman on Boardroom, where he spoke about the challenges of being rich. Here’s a part of their transcript where Durant spoke about it. Kevin Durant: “A lot of us want to help people. We know that we’re the breadwinner in our family, so we want to make sure everybody’s doing well. But sometimes it could be a lot, too. So once you figure out that balance, it’s not too bad. Sometimes you can get in over your head. I was plenty of times.” Speedy Morman: “How were you in over your head?” Kevin Durant: “Just not knowing when to say no. Learning how not to enable people. This money ain’t going to last. You trying to make this last for as long as you can, and I can’t play basketball and earn this much money for the rest of my life, every year.” “So when you think about it that way, a lot of stuff you got to start to budget and make sure this can last. So you got to say no. And I think that’s one of the hardest things to do when you get in this position, especially coming from not having this stuff. Out of nowhere, boom. Everybody’s life is going to change after that.” Therefore, while Durant is probably delighted that his investment has grown to this value, he also likely sees it as another reason people close to him might reach out for more handouts. Obviously, nobody has a problem with more money except the people who already have a lot of it.