Grantland’s Zach Lowe had the courage to ask him about it in a fairly wide-ranging interview you should read. The relevant part:
How much do you regret the photo, from all those years ago, with you, Dirk [Nowitzki], and [Mark] Cuban — the one with the cowboy hats?
Oh my god. I don’t really believe in regret [laughs], but it’s highly embarrassing. That was for [Sports Illustrated].
I hadn’t actually remembered which outlet ran that thing.
I think it was gonna actually be the cover, but it ended up just being an article. It was right when we won our first playoff series. But, yeah, I’m just glad it wasn’t me on someone’s back. But, really, it’s all bad.
(Yeah, just an excuse to run that.)
