Shawne Williams continues to be exiled by the Mavericks.

Williams, a former first round pick of the Pacers, was asked to stay away from the team.

"He was asked to leave," Dallas owner Mark Cuban wrote in an e-mail to the Memphis Commercial Appeal. "Can't get into it beyond that."

Cuban was a little more revealing in a comment to the Dallas Morning News: "We got Shawne Williams and took a chance on him. It didn't work out and we put him out to pasture."

Some off-court incidents have led the Mavericks to pay away to stay away from the team.

"I just feel like there were a lot of irreconcilable differences," Williams said. "If I could be there, I would be there. It's not like I'm not there by choice. It's by force. But I don't have a grudge. Mark's a great owner. He's hands-on. He likes basketball. We're just two different people. It's a business."