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I’m not sure if they would’ve worn that color scheme.
This is exactly what my good friend speculated on in the early 2000s, 2002 if I'm not mistaken!
I brought up that the NBA got lazy when they had the players wear their default teams' uniforms instead of the traditionally distinct All-Star Game uniforms during a conversation. He speculated that it could have been for marketing reasons because the NBA was internationally broadcast, so he logically assumed that they wanted the individual teams to get recognized that way instead of having the players wear All-Star Game uniforms, which could have potentially confused foreign viewers in making them assume the players were on an All-Star team instead of a real team.
It looks like that post validates my friend's theory about 20 years later.