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What: “Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel”

Where: HBO, tonight, 10

The lead story on this edition of “Real Sports” is about Michael and Darrell Waltrip and the Dale Earnhardt tragedy. Reported by Mary Carillo, it’s a good one. But more intriguing is the second segment, a bold look at whites as a minority in the NBA.

Lakers Mike Penberthy, Mark Madsen and Derek Fisher are among those interviewed by Bernard Goldberg. Fisher, the only black player interviewed, says: “For a lot of us, when you see a white guy on the court, you automatically think, ‘OK, in some way I’m superior to this guy.’ ”

From Penberthy, who says he likes the players in the league: “I try not to generalize, but they think they can beat you because you are white.”

Madsen talks about how one NBA general manager at the pre-draft rookie camp told him that being white “will help you in this league.” Madsen said it surprised him because “sports are supposed to be the one arena where the color line is erased.”

Steve Kerr of the San Antonio Spurs says: “I’m the stereotypical white guy. Slow, fundamentally sound and I can’t dunk. The white guy is always smart, the black guy always athletic.” He said he and teammate Antonio Daniels are always joking about the generalizations.

Bobby Valentine and Meadowlark Lemon are the other two stories.