In the NBA, why does the home team wear white instead of their team colors?
106466
it isn't done just in nba...almost all the basketball teams in the world do this.\ni think it's because of the law. it says that the home team should wear LIGHT shirt and the away team, DARK. of course dark doesn't mean black; colors like: green, red, blue and so on...except for yellow & others that look light.
599834
Just a promotional thing.  They have done it before.  The Kings do similar promotions.  When I was at Game 3 between the Spurs, they gave everyone glow sticks for the introductions.  They try to think up ways to get the entire arena at a uniformity which looks cool to the National viewing audience. What looked cool was when I was watching ESPN the other day before the Heat game, arena workers were laying all those white shirts over every single seat.  What's funny is the few people who are rooting for the other team, or are maybe too fat to where the shirts, how they stand out like a sore thumb while the other 20 thousand people are wearing the same thing!
652056
Because they're gotten more home games. Home team wears white and visiting wear their color.
486774
They use two type of jersey:\nWhite when they play as home club (known as Official Colors)\nRed   when they play as visitors (known as Reserve Colors)
1014850
every wears white because both teams are virgins to the finals. Either has never been to the finals in the NBA so it is only fitting there everyone wear white.
828072
because they play better than the other team.\n\n:>peace
904856
The NBA switched because the previous ball they were using were indoor balls only, the synthetic one's have an indoor/outdoor feel. That means they can sell more balls to the general public, the people like us who sometimes hoop outside at the park. Now, we can use the same balls the pro's use without worring about damaging a leather ball. With people like us buying the ball they can make more money.
47078
"colored"?  hmmm...  95% of the NBA is black, and there is one purple guy, onw green and yellow polka-dot colored guy, and one dude who is "colored" like a giraffe.
1000457
erm maybe its just a tradition..they started out with red and are sticking to it..or hey hangon white can get stained....
820593
Each team has a home, away, and an alternate home/away......\nFor example, the 49ers have (redish, white, gold)\nOn the other hand, the Dolphins have 6(green, white, orange, navy blue, old school green /white)
1097665
Because that is the color of the National Team, blue, called "Azzurri".\nThat is an historical tradition: before the creation of the Italian Republic, the Italian Regal Family (Savoia) had color "azzurro" (kind of blue) in their flag and that color was adopted by the soccer National Team to respect the Regal tradition.\nSince then the color has been kept in the Italian shirt, even though it is not a color present in their National flag.
688829
Eastern teams usually run more thats why.  More of an uptempo flow rather than the half court set used by most teams in the western conference.
867455
Racism is everywhere, anyone that says other wise is one of three things or all of them, stupid, blind, or racist. Racism isn't just a "white thing" either, there are racist people of all ethnicities. There may be some black players who really don't like white players, I know most people don't think of that, but it's a possibility. Now that there are so many foreign players in the league, there's no telling how people feel.  There might now be Jewish players and Muslim players who have to coexists, because of work constraints. The NBA is not a separate world, neither is any part of the entertainment arena, it is all just a small microcosm of the bigger picture. If the world as a whole, has issues, then they will seep into the smaller sects that we create.
156666
I think the majority of the people (including African-Americans) use the words "white" and "black" as a simplifier.  It is the same principle that an official in a basketball game uses to describe to the score keeper the player who committed the foul.  He commonly will say, for example, "push on number 11, blue team" when the color of uniform he is alluding to is actually purple or another odd darker color.  The same if the player is wearing grey.  The official will refer to it as white.  It is just easier for clarification.\n\nThere may be some hidden motivation for some people in the past (or possibly the present) concerning good/bad, black/white, but I doubt that most people get that from it.\n\nAs a matter of fact, I would guess that most people would rather have a black car than a white one.  White is plain (and usually less expensive).\n\nPeople will see what they want to see, I guess.
1159315
Because that is the color of the National Team, called "Azzurri".\nThat is an historical tradition: before the creation of the Italian Republic, the Italian Regal Family (Savoia) had color "azzurro" (kind of blue) in their flag and that color was adopted by the soccer National Team to respect the Regal tradition.\nSince then the color has been kept in the Italian shirt, even though it is not a color present in their National flag.
991259
Well I think with Basketball they would have to wear a sports jacket under the new Dress code. After all the players that aren't able to play have to. I would actually guess most of it is Dress codes by the league. The NFL though proably just kinda doesn't worry. They proably have a small thing like that the coaches are to look respectable but that's about it. Actually if you look at NFL coaches they usually look pretty reasonably dressy.
282956
There may not be jerseys around and the game sometimes moves to fast to stop and recognize a face. And they're guys, most of the time, so they don't too much care as long as the game is played. Also, most often games start out of nowhere, just a bunch of guys on the court, when theres enough its like "hey, lets play a game". Even when everyone agrees to meet there at a certain time, no one says over the phone lets pick team because one person maay not be reliable or someone better might show up the day of the game.