en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976%E2%80%9377_Portland_Trail_Blazers_season

Contemporary and historical transaction records show two separate problems with this sentence.

1. The cash went from Buffalo to Portland, not the other way around. A contemporary AP report on the trade says the Braves paid $232,000 and surrendered their 1978 first-round pick for Moses Malone. A Portland history page preserving the team’s 1976 transaction notes likewise says, “The Blazers will receive from the Braves a first round pick ... and $232,000.”

2. Buffalo’s pick did not directly become the No. 1 pick used on Mychal Thompson. Basketball-Reference’s Trail Blazers transactions page says Portland traded Moses Malone to Buffalo for a 1978 first-round pick, later used on Rick Robey. The Pacers’ official media guide then shows what happened next: on June 8, 1978, Indiana acquired Johnny Davis and a first-round draft pick from Portland in exchange for the Pacers’ 1978 first-round pick, and on June 9 Indiana selected Rick Robey 3rd overall. In other words, Portland first got Buffalo’s pick, then traded that pick (plus Johnny Davis) to Indiana for the Pacers’ No. 1 pick, which Portland used on Mychal Thompson.

So the sentence is wrong both about who paid the $232,000 and about Buffalo’s pick directly becoming the top selection.

Basketball-Reference’s 1976–77 Trail Blazers schedule lists Portland’s final regular-season game — the 145–116 win over the Los Angeles Lakers that clinched the 49–33 finish — on Saturday, April 9, 1977. The article’s schedule row dates that game one day late.

The Basketball-Reference page for the 1977 Western Conference semifinals lists Game 2, Portland at Denver, on April 22, 1977, and Portland’s season schedule shows the same date for the 121–110 loss at McNichols Sports Arena. So the playoff game log on this page is off by one day.