<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Josh Howard also said that, even after the odd timing of his infamous radio appearance hours before Game 3 of the first-round playoff series against the New Orleans Hornets, being traded never crossed his mind. With Howard smoothing things over, the Mavs' brass doesn't appear ready to let him go, either. "Josh doesn't have to smooth things over," Mavs owner Mark Cuban said. "He has to work his ass off to better his game and be ready to play. He realizes what he did wrong, and he knows what he has to do to put it all behind him, which is come to [training] camp as a much better basketball player in every sense of the word."</div> Fort Wort Star-Telegram
