It’s official: Jaylen Brown will participate in this year’s dunk contest.

After a few days of speculation, the NBA’s 2024 dunk contest field was announced on Thursday. It includes Brown, Jacob Toppin, Jaime Jacquez Jr. and reigning contest champion Mac McClung. The marquee All-Star weekend event will take place on Saturday, Feb. 17 in Indianapolis.

Brown, who’s making his third career All-Star appearance this season, is the headlining name for an event that has lost its buzz over the years. He’ll be the first All-Star to participate in the dunk contest since Victor Oladipo in 2018. Other players, such as Damian Lillard (2014), Giannis Antetekounmpo (2015) and Donovan Mitchell (2018) have done the dunk contest before their ascent as stars, but a player like Brown doing it as an established All-Star has become a rarity.

Even this year’s dunk contest field isn’t necessarily one to get excited about outside of Brown. Toppin is on a two-way contract with the Knicks, Jacquez Jr. is a rookie with the Heat, and McClung – who certainly impressed last year to win the dunk contest – isn’t even in the NBA. He’s in the G-League.

“I think it would be great for him to participate in it, right?” said Jayson Tatum, who will join Brown in Indy for All-Star weekend. “Kind of bring back that star power to the dunk contest. You want to see all the big-name guys being in it, that’s how I grew up watching it. I would love for him to be in it. I would love for him to win. I think it would be exciting to see.”

Brown is the first Celtics player to participate in the dunk contest since Gerald Green, who won it in 2007. He’ll be the fifth player in Celtics history to do it, joining Dee Brown (won in 1991), Greg Minor (1996), Ricky Davis (2004) and Green (2007).

Brown has turned down an invitation to the dunk contest twice in his career, first when he was a rookie in 2017 and then again in 2021. But 2024 is his time.