Anthony Degnan is an Ivorian dunker who has lived in France since around 2020. He stands 1.95 metres, roughly 6’5”, with a vertical measured at 1.12 metres, about 44 inches, and he only started entering dunk contests in 2022.
His breakthrough came at the FIBA 3x3 World Tour stop in Marseille in May 2025, where he won the Wilson dunk contest. It was his first 3x3 dunk contest win. He built the round up through a behind-the-back tomahawk with a hand switch, a two-handed 360 double pump, a self bounce alley-oop into a scorpion behind the back, and a bounce alley-oop double-pump reverse, then closed with a 360 into an eastbay and hit it on the first attempt. That dunk, the 360 eastbay, is the one his name is now attached to.
Speaking afterwards he said it was the first 3x3 dunk contest he had won and that his message to Ivorians was to believe in their dreams.
In July 2026 he was one of four dunkers announced for the Quai 54 contest in Paris, alongside Chen Dengxing, Mounir Konate and Vieux Sanneh. A red-alert heatwave forced the organisers to move the event indoors to Clichy Hall with under twelve hours’ notice. Chen won it with 194 points. Degnan had watched Quai 54 from the stands the summer before, and getting on the floor there a year later came through Kadour Ziani, who has mentored him.
His nationality is reported three different ways depending on the source. The Quai 54 press list has him as Australian, French outlets covering him call him French, and the African basketball press calls him Ivorian and based in France. His own words after Marseille, addressed to his Ivorians, are the closest thing to a first-person answer.
At 6’5” he is taller than most of the contest field, and the dunks he wins with are rotation dunks rather than reach dunks. That is the harder combination to hold together: the taller you are, the more mass has to come around inside the same hang time, and the 360 eastbay in Marseille was the proof that he can.
