text: are the salary cap limit for all the nba teams in the league the same or different by each team?  thanks!?   it is the same but it is a soft cap, meaning that there are ways to go over the cap, like the bird exception which is signing your own players for contracts that take your over the cap, there are several other exceptions that you can use once you are over the cap.  there is also at salary level at which they apply a luxury tax, which i think for every dollar you are over that level you pay a dollar.