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It is a "push". The other answers are overthinking this way too much. If you push off of someone you are pushing someone which is a foul.

Here are the types of fouls in basketball (ALL OF THEM):

1. Blocking
2. Holding
3. Hand Check
4. Push (Charging)
5. Illegal use of hand (not really called because the foul usually hits another category)
6. Player control.

Those are all the foul categories a player can commit. If you commit a foul you have to do one or more of these. If you didn't do one of these it isn't a foul. So in this case you are pushing off on a player. So it is a push. It clearly isn't a hold, a block, a hand check, illegal use of hands, and since the player was deemed to do it on purpose it couldn't be a player control foul. So in essence if what the OP said is true it is a "push" foul but probably also an intentional or technical foul type. See chart below to reference foul types.

It is a "push": if you push off of someone you are pushing someone which is a foul.

Here are the types of fouls in basketball (ALL OF THEM):

1. Blocking
2. Holding
3. Hand Check
4. Push (Charging)
5. Illegal use of hand (not really called because the foul usually hits another category)
6. Player control.

Those are all the foul categories a player can commit. If you commit a foul you have to do one or more of these. If you didn't do one of these it isn't a foul. So in this case you are pushing off on a player. So it is a push. It clearly isn't a hold, a block, a hand check, illegal use of hands, and since the player was deemed to do it on purpose it couldn't be a player control foul. So in essence if what the OP said is true it is a "push" foul but probably also an intentional or technical foul type. See chart below to reference foul types.

It is a "push". The other answers are overthinking this way too much. If you push off of someone you are pushing someone which is a foul.

I will add some commentary here. This is a really easy question to answer if you have any background in reffing basketball. I gave the right and simple answer above. It was downvoted because this site is somewhat of a joke in voting in that they would rather see something wrong with documentation than the right answer.

Here are the types of fouls in basketball (ALL OF THEM):

1. Blocking
2. Holding
3. Hand Check
4. Push (Charging)
5. Illegal use of hand (not really called because the foul usually hits another category)
6. Player control.

Those are all the foul categories a player can commit. If you commit a foul you have to do one or more of these. If you didn't do one of these it isn't a foul. So in this case you are pushing off on a player. So it is a push. It clearly isn't a hold, a block, a hand check, illegal use of hands, and since the player was deemed to do it on purpose it couldn't be a player control foul. So in essence if what the OP said is true it is a "push" foul but probably also an intentional or technical foul type. See chart below to reference foul types.

It is a "push". The other answers are overthinking this way too much. If you push off of someone you are pushing someone which is a foul.

Here are the types of fouls in basketball (ALL OF THEM):

1. Blocking
2. Holding
3. Hand Check
4. Push (Charging)
5. Illegal use of hand (not really called because the foul usually hits another category)
6. Player control.

Those are all the foul categories a player can commit. If you commit a foul you have to do one or more of these. If you didn't do one of these it isn't a foul. So in this case you are pushing off on a player. So it is a push. It clearly isn't a hold, a block, a hand check, illegal use of hands, and since the player was deemed to do it on purpose it couldn't be a player control foul. So in essence if what the OP said is true it is a "push" foul but probably also an intentional or technical foul type. See chart below to reference foul types.

It is a "push". The other answers are overthinking this way too much. If you push off of someone you are pushing someone which is a foul.

It is a "push". The other answers are overthinking this way too much. If you push off of someone you are pushing someone which is a foul.

I will add some commentary here. This is a really easy question to answer if you have any background in reffing basketball. I gave the right and simple answer above. It was downvoted because this site is somewhat of a joke in voting in that they would rather see something wrong with documentation than the right answer.

Here are the types of fouls in basketball (ALL OF THEM):

1. Blocking
2. Holding
3. Hand Check
4. Push (Charging)
5. Illegal use of hand (not really called because the foul usually hits another category)
6. Player control.

Those are all the foul categories a player can commit. If you commit a foul you have to do one or more of these. If you didn't do one of these it isn't a foul. So in this case you are pushing off on a player. So it is a push. It clearly isn't a hold, a block, a hand check, illegal use of hands, and since the player was deemed to do it on purpose it couldn't be a player control foul. So in essence if what the OP said is true it is a "push" foul but probably also an intentional or technical foul type. See chart below to reference foul types.