Avante Nichols, who dunks as The Joker, is a 6’2” two-foot dunker from Atlanta, Georgia. He plants left-right and his signature is a 360 happy feet.
He is one of the 24 athletes contracted to the Dunkman League for its first season, and he finished second in Group Stage B on July 28, 2026, scoring 4.91 behind Dillan McCarthy. The rest of the group was Jonathan Clark, Gustavo Haakin, Mason Baker and Tyler Currie.
The league runs four group stages of six dunkers at the Overtime Elite Arena in Atlanta. The four group winners advance to the World Championship on August 25, along with the four highest scoring non-winners across all groups, for a field of eight and a $500,000 prize.
The remaining four places went to the highest scores across every group, and his 4.91 finished outside them once all four groups were complete. He did not advance.
Happy feet is a stutter-step borrowed from football. Putting it inside a 360 means breaking the approach rhythm and then turning it into a full rotation off two feet.