It would be the "participation trophy" mentality taken to an extreme. You scored a point in basketball! Congrats! you have Tied the HIGH SCORE with everyone else who has ever picked up a basket ball: 1. After that we stop counting so noone feels left out except for that one player who strangely has never scored professionally.
Now that I look it up, there are tons of NBA players who never scored but only cause they played a single game or whatever.
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