• A legal screen is an action by any player (offensive or defensive), with or without the ball, that:
  • Delays or prevents an opponent from reaching a desired position
  • Is set without causing illegal contact
• To establish and maintain a legal screen, the screener must:
  • Stay within their vertical plane
  • Maintain a stance no wider than shoulder width
  • Be inbounds
  • Not be required to face any specific direction
• A screener shall not:
  • Set a screen outside an opponent’s visual field without allowing one normal step to avoid contact
  • Make contact when setting a screen within an opponent’s visual field
  • Set a screen so close to a moving opponent that the opponent cannot stop or change direction
  • Set a moving screen that causes contact
  • Lean into, extend hips into, or move into the path of an opponent
• When two players move in the same path and direction:
  • If the screener slows or stops and contact occurs, the trailing player is responsible
• Use of arms or hips to force through a screen is illegal:
  • If contact is with the screener’s torso, the foul is on the defender
  • If contact is with a screener’s leg that is illegally wide, the foul is on the screener
• Multiple screeners:
  • May not line up within 6 feet of a boundary line parallel to it if contact occurs
  • May line up parallel if at least 6 feet from the boundary and not locking arms