{"id":641232,"date":"2026-05-13T20:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/641232\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T20:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:02:08","slug":"delta-center-atmosphere-powers-salt-lake-into-national-basketball-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/641232\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta Center atmosphere powers Salt Lake into national basketball spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) \u2014 According to financial analysts, Utahns are passionate about their basketball. <a href=\"https:\/\/wallethub.com\/edu\/best-worst-cities-for-basketball-fans\/11034\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WalletHub<\/a> ranked Salt Lake City as one place that stands out among the rest of basketball cities in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the NBA generates around $12.8 billion in annual revenue WalletHub reports. According to a breakdown in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/teams\/utah-jazz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Forbes<\/a>, the Jazz contributed to that with $340 million in revenue.<\/p>\n<p>Factors such as successful teams, strong revenues, attendance, and engagement were analyzed by WalletHub.<\/p>\n<p>The financial site ranked Salt Lake City as number five out of almost 300 cities for the best cities for basketball fans.  <\/p>\n<p>Looking at ticket prices, Salt Lake City games have some of the lowest average ticket prices.<\/p>\n<p>Salt Lake City was rated number one in the analysis for having the most accessible stadium and ranked at the top for the most engaged fans. However, the team hasn\u2019t performed as well according to WalletHub.<\/p>\n<p>When ranked by the size of the city, Los Angeles was at the top of the list for large cities.<\/p>\n<p>Salt Lake City took the top spot for mid-sized cities.<\/p>\n<p>Storrs, Connecticut was named as the top small-sized city. <\/p>\n<p>_____<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) \u2014 According to financial analysts, Utahns are passionate about their basketball. WalletHub ranked Salt&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-641232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}