It has been tradition in the NBA since its inception that the home team wears white jerseys during games, or in the Los Angeles Lakers case gold jerseys, while the visiting teams wears darker colored jerseys.
The NBA has a new partnership with Nike though, who will make the jerseys for all 30 teams beginning in the 2017-18 season, and it appears that the two sides have agreed that home whites are no longer mandatory.
According to Nick DePaula of ESPN, the home team now has the ability to decide what color jersey they want to wear:
NBA & Nike are ditching traditional Home & Road jerseys.