"Hugging Face in Durant: Eight years later or 60 million, more than 240 times the return."

Durant could earn close to $60 million in eight years by investing in Hugging Face. According to Joe Popgliano, a sports commercial journalist, Durant and a business partner, Rich Kleiman, invested $100,000 in the seed wheel as early as 2018, and another $150,000 in 2019, with two totals of $250,000. These two early investments are now likely to be worth more than $60 million and yield more than 240 times as much as estimated by the acquisition price of $12.9 billion in Weibo. This figure is even higher than Durant ' s 2026-27 season salary in Houston, which is approximately $43.9 million. Durant was later involved in the Hugging Face B and C rounds of financing, but the additional amounts were not made public, so $60 million and 240 times the estimated value of the first two investments, not the full amount of Durant's return from Hugging Face。