It is officially official: Jabari Parker's tenure with the Milwaukee Bucks has come to a rapid close. The facts on the ground show that Parker, a Chicago native, will be on his way southwards to join the Chicago Bulls on a two-year, $40 million deal.
I'm not going to go too deep into analysis about what the sequence of events says about the Bucks, the front office, the team's basketball philosophy, etc. Instead, I'd like to take a moment to reminisce on the start of Jabari's tenure in Milwaukee and all the hope his arrival seemed to foretell for the team.