The Chicago Bulls continued to revamp their front office Friday, hiring J.J. Polk away from the New Orleans Pelicans to serve as an assistant general manager, multiple sources confirmed to ESPN.

Polk, who is African-American, has spent the last 10 seasons working with the Pelicans including the last seven as the executive director of basketball administration.

Polk was one of New Orleans' salary cap specialists and on a conference call with reporters on Thursday, Pelicans executive vice president of basketball operations David Griffin lauded Polk and others for having the team prepared for what lies ahead with the NBA's potentially fluid cap situation.

New Orleans has been the only home for Polk in his NBA career after starting with the organization in 2010-11. Prior to that, Polk practiced law for six years. He received his law degree from the University of Illinois.

Polk joins a new Chicago front office led by Arturas Karnisovas and is not expected to be the only assistant general manager the organization hires.

The news of the Bulls' interest in Polk was first reported by NBC Sports Chicago.