Ramona Shelbourne pointed this out:
AD gets traded. New Orleans gets #1 pick. Zion.
AD gets traded. Dallas gets #1 pick. Cooper Flagg.
AD gets traded. WAS gets #1 pick. Dybantsa.
I was a little confused by this as it was NOP gets the #1 Pick, Zion (June 20, 2019), then AD gets traded to LAL (July 6, 2019). Same at DAL (traded to DAL in Feb 2025). Pick came in June 2025, the trade of AD to WAS came later. Now AD is on WAS and they get the #1 pick.
So I guess the point is that was on each of these teams when they won the lottery. He had to suffer through 3 tanking teams, and then get traded (still TBD for WAS but likely).
So the sequence is AD joins team (draft or trade), team tanks, team wins lottery, team trades AD. See if WAS keeps up the string.