Does the Larry Bird exception mean that free agents can be signed and not count against the cap?
All salaries are included in team salary (and count against the cap). The Bird exception simply says a team can exceed the cap to sign certain players. The new salary applies toward the team salary just like the salaries of the team’s other players. So if a team is over the cap and uses the Bird exception to re-sign its own free agent, it will end up farther over the cap.
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