Alright, so I was practicing my 'Mikan step' today and this dude starts telling me its a travel to lift your pivot foot. I respond that its only a travel if you lift it before releasing the ball when starting a dribble. To shoot or pass you can lift it as long as its in a continuous motion and you don't come to a stop while the pivot foot is in the air, because that would cause your other foot to become pivot foot,and changing pivot feet is a travel. So one can pickup dribble, establish pivot foot, take a step with non pivot one, then in one continuous motion lift the pivot and either pass or shoot without returning the pivot foot back to the ground and its not a travel, in NBA, NCAA and FIBA, at least. I was offering the guy to make a bet and he refused. He started talking about how he is a ref for some league and lifting the pivot foot is a travel. Which its not. Just a heads up, if you ever want to test someone's bball knowledge, this topic most people get wrong.

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BBal is mind blowing rocket science...