The Milwaukee Bucks saw the official departure of forward Jabari Parker after four seasons after he inked a two-year, $40 million deal with the Chicago Bulls on the open market once the team rescinded their qualifying offer.

There was a within the organization to retain Parker, but as Jordan Schulz of Yahoo! Sports is reporting, the front office felt there was a sense that the two sides were headed in different directions.

Parker was clearly moving in the direction of getting a fresh start in his career, which the opportunity to play for his hometown team had become to him for him to prove himself.

The Bulls are taking a tremendous chance on the 23-year-old to show that he can be a piece they can build around for the future alongside their promising young core group of Zach LaVine, Lauri Markkanen, Wendell Carter Jr. and Kris Dunn.

He has shown plenty of potential up to this point of his career, but his injury history with a pair of torn ACLs has led to Chicago placing a team option for the second year. The hope is that he can recapture his form last season prior to the injury where he was averaging a career-best 20.1 points on 49.0 percent shooting from the floor and 36.5 percent from beyond the arc along with 6.2 rebounds per contest.

If he's any essence of that type of player with the Bulls, it could make this a huge addition that could help them make a push back into the playoff picture.

Ultimately, the writing was on the wall for the Bucks that they were more than professional by helping clear the way for him to join where he felt was best for this next chapter of his career.