Maybe but there's also a lot of ink about the drop in attendance in MLB games since the stopped looking the other way on steroids, maybe there are too many games to be able to be entertaining without drugs. Maybe NBA is on there way there, a third of the teams home games sold out seems like lots of room for improvement to me, I guess it's perspective.
Edit: Agree it's probably TV driving it. But just my perspective as Basketball fan, I would rather see 50 or 60 really great competitive games played by rested healthy and happy players than 80 games by tired players.