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Who has the hottest ticket in the NBA? If you guessed the Utah Jazz, you would be correct. (You also would have amazing reading comprehension, seeing as I just mentioned it in the headline.) According to the Sports Business Journal (via The Biz of Basketball), the Jazz lead all NBA teams with 14,500 full-season tickets sold.

Fueling the Jazz's rise to the top of the league is an increase of 5,400 new full-season packages sold to date, the second-highest one-year gain in league history. That figure represents $6.5 million in revenue, team officials said.

The 5,400 new full-ticket plans come after the Jazz raised prices by an average of 5 percent. The Golden State Warriors are close behind the Jazz in new full-season-ticket sales with 5,200 sold this year.

I guess the fact that Utah and Golden State paced the league in new ticket sales shouldn't be a huge surprise: both franchises exceeded expectations in the playoffs last year, with the Jazz advancing to the Western Conference Finals and the Warriors knocking off the top-seeded Mavericks.

Plus, I have to imagine there's just not all that much to do in Salt Lake City during the winter, at least among entertainment-seekers looking to stay indoors. I realize that's a generalization, but it's true, especially considering it's a one-team town when it comes to major professional sports. But the Jazz aren't alone: SBJ also notes an 8% 8% of tickets sales league-wide, with 12 franchises topping the 10,000 full-season tickets sold mark.