TORONTO — The Toronto Raptors will be without reserve guard/forward Landry Fields for Monday’s game against the visiting Detroit Pistons.
The team announced before the game that Fields was in Los Angeles to receive follow-up testing on his surgically repaired right elbow.
Fields missed almost two months after undergoing ulnar nerve transposition surgery Nov. 14 to address compression/entrapment in his right elbow.
Raptors coach Dwane Casey stopped short of declaring Fields’ season over.
"I don’t think we’re going to shut him down," said Casey. "He’s been playing pretty well, but he felt some tingle and wanted to follow up and double check.
"It was Landry’s decision to do it sooner rather than later. He felt something, and didn’t feel natural or normal, and wanted to get an opinion on it."
Fields, who signed a lucrative offer sheet in the off-season that the New York Knicks declined to match, is averaging to 4.9 points and four rebounds per game.
He’s started 22 games this season and had a season-high of 18 points and 10 rebounds on Jan. 20 against the Lakers.
Seldom-used power forward Quincy Acy is expected to fill Fields’ spot. Acy hasn’t played since March 1 against Indiana.
