flv2
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It depends on how the contract is written. For example if a team signs a player to a 5 year contract at $10M per year with $1M salary in the 1st year and a $9M signing bonus then it's unlikely they could come after it if the player held out in year 3. It depends on whether the signing bonus is really a signing bonus or whether it's a mechanism for delaying cap hits. Many contracts are altered after money becomes guaranteed purely to delay cap hits. Players and agents wouldn't allow it if the alteration could later be used against the player.They could go after a prorated portion of his signing bonus I think. I know they haven't done that in the past, but I could see them doing it to Adams.
As I understand it the dead money relating to Adams is delayed accounting of salary already paid. Thus there's nothing to claw back.