This is a foul on white all the way. If you think the contact by black is a foul in this case you are expecting to much from any player on rebounding action. Yes contact occurs, but black essentially jumps up and any appearance that he is jumping forward, into white and displacing him, is coming from the fact that white is moving back and undercutting him.
This is a great call because its one officials get wrong very often. To often we penalize the player on the back side simply because he out-jumped, or out positioned the player on the front. Simply being in-between a player and the basket on rebounding action is not the only criteria needed when adjudicating rebounding action.
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