The Sixers have been trying to deal Sam Dalembert for a while now, but surprise, surprise, nobody wants a crappy center with a contract that is only slightly less than Lebron James’s. Want to know how unbelievably ridiculously Samuel Dalembert’s contract is? Compare it to some players in this city who, you know, don’t totally and completely suck.

Samuel Dalembert. $12.12 million this season.

Chase Utley. $11.3 million this season.

Jimmy Rollins. $8.5 million

DeSean Jackson. $1.65 million

Mike Richards. $5.75 million.

In terms of the NBA salaries, Dalembert makes exactly as much as Chauncey Billups, who almost singlehandedly led the Nuggets to the Western Conference Finals last year with 17 ppg and 6 apg. Dalembert, meanwhile, is about the 4th or 5th best player on a team that is startlingly consistent in terms of mediocrity, and is averaging 6.2 and 6.8 rpg. Dalembert’s numbers are rather similar to Oklahoma City’s Thabo Sefolosha’s. Who in the hell is Thabo Sefolosha? He’s a bit player for the Thunder who is making about $10 million less and having about the same impact as Dalembert has for the Sixers.

Finally, look at his salary this way. The average per capita income of his Dalembert’s native Haiti is $1,300. In other words, Samuel Dalembert makes as much money per year as 9,230 of his fellow countrymen combined. And I suspect that at least 2,000 of them have better post moves.