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Thursday, August 06, 2026

This one is for basketball fans.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/basketball/watch-caitlin-clark-takes-kick-from-olivia-miles-as-fans-demand-investigation/ar-AA29sxsM 

There is an embedded video in this post. It's the evidence. Clark failed to give the player in the air a safe landing zone. It could have been called a flagrant-1. Against Clark. The days of Bill Laimbeer play are well over. Miles was in the air watching the basket. Clark was cutting to cover for a defender beaten on the play. Clark was both trying to block the shot and stay in position to rebound a miss. Miles was leaning on the shot and testing her landing area. Clark's momentum carried her into Miles' leg. Miles was leaning and had the right to test for whether she'd need to adjust her landing, which she did without falling, and she had the right to try to be positioned to clean a missed shot.

It was in the circle, not a perimeter 3. Even Clark being motionless would not get a call for a charge in the circle. But her momentum was straight into the landing zone and she was not trying to veer toward the line but rather trying a block and being positioned to try to box out on a rebound if the shot missed.

It was a good no call. The landing zone rule is important. Nephreesa Collier had to have both ankles operated in the off season and just now is returning. Landing on a foot is something suffered here, and it hurts badly while taking long to heal, and can always feel as if it never healed properly.

Mitchell for the Fever shot lights out on threes that game, and was not crowded but her right to a landing zone was continuously respected. She never got a call for being crowded. It was clean basketball. Furthermore, in the low paint it's hard to get a call either way. Let them play.