Potential suitors: Pistons, Heat, Wizards

Patterson, 31, is coming off the most productive season of his career. Granted, those statistics came on a Bucks team desperate for warm bodies, and the swingman's shooting range has always been limited, but Patterson has long been a solid dirty-work sort of player. He might find a winning team willing to take a chance on a player whose legal troubles and sharp tongue have never made him easy to slot into a rotation.