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There was contact, so it's a personal foul, not an unsportsmanlike penalty. If it happened during the return, it is a PF penalized from the spot (behind the end of the run). Because the unecessary roughness occurred well away from the run & did not affect the outcome, if there's any doubt whether the foul occurred during the return, I'd lean toward dead-ball. But because it was a live-ball foul by your description, you'd need to enforce the live ball foul from the spot & deal with one very displeased sideline.
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