‘“Salary retention was a nonstarter from the beginning with us that we would not compromise on,” Adams said. “We felt that when we were talking about the term of the contract that we were trading away to retain salary in for this level of player just was going to be a nonstarter. We want to make sure that we have the flexibility moving forward, not just in the short term but for four or five years down the road to have that flexibility to be able to do what we need to do as an organization so that’s why it was just something we were not going to compromise on.”’