Dante is a thirty-seven-year-old basketball player at Lincoln Rec who played abroad for a few years, apparently in the military. He is described as a dark-skinned man "whose skin shines black as night, and his hair is scarecrow wild" with a goatee like the devil's forking out from his chin, appropriate since he enjoys playing the devil's advocate. Dante takes a genuine like to Sticky and is able to engage him in a deep, heart-to-heart conversation in which he tries to persuade the younger guy to take charge of his life and live more honestly and authentically.
