Mason Baker is a 6'4" professional dunker from Utah, a competitor in Shaq's DunkMan League and a founding member of the Utah Dunkers. He has a 44" verified vertical, goes up off two feet from a left-right plant, and his signature is the 360 under both. He went from barely dunking to the professional stage in a little over a year.
He did not come up through basketball. He was a competitive club soccer goalkeeper until a broken arm forced him out of the sport, and when he moved to hoops it went badly. He was cut from his sophomore team, and in the seasons he did play he averaged around six minutes a game. Nothing in that record predicted where he ended up.
One connection changed the trajectory. He went to high school with Isaiah Rivera's brother, which meant that while he was still chasing his first ten foot dunk he was getting real technique corrections in person rather than piecing things together from clips. Most people learning to dunk spend years guessing at what they are doing wrong.
The other turning point was the Utah Dunkers. A dunker who had seen his footage tracked him down on his college campus specifically to ask for his number, which is how he ended up inside an established crew rather than training alone. Utah has produced an unusual share of the sport's jumpers, and being embedded in that group is a large part of how his progression compressed into roughly eighteen months.
Dunkman League 2026. He competed in Group Stage B on July 28, in a group won by Dillan McCarthy, and finished outside the advancing places. The Dunkman League runs four group stages of six 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.