It’s fun to win. If you aren’t trying to win, why even play? The point of a game is to win the game. If you think the point is to only have fun then everyone gets a participation trophy, you are part of the reason society has decayed.
If, as the cartoon suggests, it was about ratings, then she should have been chosen as she was the primary (for many, the only) reason so many people tuned into the WNBA last year. But fielding a full $kank squad was more important to the bigots.
Big egos and nepotism. I do hear that peasant James the STOAT* taught him most of his flop techniques, though.
*Shriekiest Toddler Of All Time