oh no, another screen question (NBA rules not helpful)

[davidrmoran]

I myself know from both coaching and playing (and reading your guys!) that there must be contact for a personal foul to be called, and illegal, i.e. advantage-conveying contact at that.

But many players (and maybe even some refs) will call "moving screen" when an offensive player is "running interference" ahead of his teammate with the ball, even when no contact has been made or is about to be made.

One such person who made this "call" cited this, from the NBA rules:

"A player who sets a screen shall not … move laterally or toward an opponent being screened, after having assumed a legal position."

Nothing about contact, anywhere. Why and how do you suppose this got written this way?
Elsewhere screens fall under "Contact Situations", but not here.

http://www.nba.com/analysis/rules_12...av=ArticleList

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thanks, guys; you are great!

-- David