The Washington Wizards have done all that they can in submitting themselves before the basketball gods, at least on a technical level. They went out there and prioritized long-term development like no other, collecting a league-high 65 losses over the 2025-26 schedule and earning a guarantee at a top-five pick the hard way. Now, it's up to pure luck to see where they'll fall in the drawing order. It's a near-identical spot to the situation the franchise was preparing for exactly a year ago, but they'd be best off avoiding any parallels to that tragic chain of events. Bub Carrington had his fingerprints all over the catastrophe, even if there isn't a thing he'd likely do differently to influence the chain of events. His season-ending game-winner was just enough to knock the Wizards from that year's worst record and open the door for the team to fall to No. 6, which they did with the guard in attendance as the Wizards' ill-fated lottery representative last summer.…