Career
Patavoukas started his career with Asteras Exarhion, and later played for AEK Athens. With AEK Athens, Patavoukas was a 2 time Greek Cup finalist, in 1988 and 1992. After playing with Panathinaikos, he played with Virtus Bologna.
In 1989, he was a silver medalist at the EuroBasket 1989 in Yugoslavia.
In July 2007, Patavoukas was appointed the technical director of Ionikos Lamias.