Trade & FA 2024-25:

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I understand that. TPE at this point defines how much Mavs can offer to Thompson without GSW taking additional salary (assuming Mavs clear more money, as we said). But of course, the deal can be expanded in many ways, involving more teams and so on.

Yep, got it.

It might be worth mentioning that if the Mavs had all the Apron room in the world, that 16.2M TPE could be used to take back a 23.7M salary, simply by combining the trades. That's why I keep mentioning the idea that they are likely to do them together, since that has so much potential to broaden their flexibility.