Dana Taylor, host of USA TODAY's podcast "The Excerpt," talked with Patterson, who has written more than 200 novels, and Mychal Threets, a librarian known on Instagram for his smile, big hair and ...

Amid what has been a frustrating stretch for Dallas, Thompson's father, Mychal, spoke candidly about what Thompson's time has been like with the Mavericks. "He thought with Luka and Kyrie that he ...