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Samuel Dalemport, a blue-collar center from Haiti

3:06pm, 8 June 2025【Basketball】

Everyone should still remember Samuel Dalemport, the blue-collar big center from Haiti.

Samuel Dalembert, Samuel Dalembert, 6-foot-11 inches (211cm), plays as center (C). Born on May 10, 1981 in Port-au-Prince, the capital of the Republic of Haiti, Haitian Canadian, produced by West East University, was selected by the Philadelphia 76ers in the 2001 NBA Draft 26th pick in the first round. In 2010, the Haiti earthquake actively raised and transported supplies, and was even trapped under rubble for more than 12 hours due to ground collapse. Therefore, he won the James Walter Kennedy Citizen Award that year. In his 13-season NBA career, Samuel Delhamport played for six teams, the 76ers (2001-2010), the Kings (2010-2011), the Rockets (2011-2012), the Bucks (2012-2013), the Mavericks (2013-2014), and the Knicks (2014-2015). He played in a total of 886 games in the regular season, including 694 starts, averaging 24.4 minutes per game, scoring 7.7 points, 7.8 rebounds, 0.5 assists, 0.5 steals and 1.7 blocks. In the playoffs, they played 25 games, starting in 24 games, averaging 26.4 minutes per game, scoring 7.2 points, 9.2 rebounds, 0.3 assists, 0.4 steals and 1.4 blocks.

Samuel Dalemport has a good defensive ability, a large defense range, good bounce, excellent blocking ability, and a 226 cm arm span, which has averaged 1.74 blocks per game in his NBA career and has sent key blocks many times in the game. He has a good rebounding awareness, good at fighting for rebounds, has a certain ability to finish at the basket, and can occasionally shoot some mid-range shots, but he has no back-playing ability, relatively single offensive skills, no independent offensive ability, poor ball handling ability, and his free throw shooting percentage is quite reasonable, but his stability is insufficient.

As an inside blue-collar worker, Samuel Delhamport has had many highlight games. On April 3, 2004, local time in the United States, in the Philadelphia 76ers lost to the New York Knicks at 75:86 at home, Delhamport started for 47 minutes, scoring 13 points, 14 rebounds, 1 steal, 9 blocks, with 9 blocks, and 9 blocks. 9 blocks set a single game record in the NBA career. On December 12, 2007, in the Philadelphia 76ers' home victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves, Dalem Porter started for 40 minutes, scoring 18 points and 11 rebounds, tying the NBA career highest 9 blocks. On December 12, 2007, local time, in the Philadelphia 76ers lost to the Golden State Warriors 111:119 away game, Dalem Porter started for 33 minutes, scored 15 points and 1 steal, and captured the highest single-game 23 rebounds in the NBA career. On February 5, 2013, in the Milwaukee Bucks lost to the Denver Nuggets 104:112 away game, Delham Porter played for 27 minutes on the bench, made 17 of 21 shots and 1 free throw, scoring the highest single-game 35 points in NBA career, plus 12 rebounds, 2 assists and 1 block. In the offseason in 2015, Samuel Dalemport signed with the Dallas Mavericks, but was cut before the start of the new season. He left the NBA and joined the CBA Shanxi team (2016-2017.12), and gradually faded out of the court since then, and there is little news about him.