Versatile Patrick Patterson exits with knee injury in Phoenix. West coast swing hits L.A. for date with Lakers on Sunday.
PHOENIX—Dwane Casey called him the team’s “Swiss Army knife” earlier this week, a multi-faceted tool vital to the Toronto Raptors’ success, someone who can be plugged into a variety of spots at a variety of times, given a variety of jobs to do and then left alone to do them.
Patrick Patterson carries neither the cache nor the responsibility of some of his higher profile teammates, but one of the guys the Raptors can ill afford to lose spent most of Thursday night dealing with what team officials called a “strained left knee.