Kentucky head men's basketball coach John Calipari is set to donate $1 million he received as part of a Facebook Watch series last year.
According to Tom Schad and Steve Berkowitz of USA Today, Calipari was paid $1 million for access to his team during the filming of Inside the Madness: Kentucky Basketball. Rather than pocketing the money, Calipari intends to put it toward several different charities.
The coach discussed his decision in the following statement provided to USA Today:
"In a perfect world, some of the money we made from the Facebook series would have been distributed to our players.