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Favors, Harris still wonder about trade from Nets

Derrick Favors has one question and Devin Harris has one answer regarding their recent trade from the Nets.

Favors wants to know why the Nets ever drafted him in the first place, because he feels he never really was wanted. Harris has one answer to those in the Nets organization who questioned his commitment the past two seasons.

“They can never touch my effort,” Harris said yesterday before the Jazz played the Knicks at the Garden. “I don’t get offended. [If I’d heard it before the trade] then I would have. But now what can you say? I’d say it’s not important.”

Favors, the 19-year-old bundle of upside the Nets drafted No. 3, said there is no anger but admitted he was “real sad” at being traded in the blockbuster for Deron Williams.

“I’m not mad,” Favors said. “I was real sad when they traded me. I thought it was all over with the Carmelo [Anthony] rumors. I thought I was going to be there but they wanted to trade me, so they traded me.”

Favors feels he was drafted merely to be traded and never was part of any long term Nets plan. Almost immediately after joining up, his name was linked to the Anthony trade saga.

“I do feel that way. They wanted to trade me ever since I got drafted. It’s a business and they have to deal with it,” said Favors. “I thought about [why they drafted him at all] when they traded me. It crossed my mind but I didn’t say nothing. They said nothing. Pretty much they didn’t tell me anything.”

With Harris gone, Williams is the point guard of the future for the Nets — assuming he stays beyond next season. He’s already the face of the franchise.

“He knows what he wants and obviously, winning is very important to him,” Harris said. “At the end of the day, if they surround him with what he needs I think he’ll definitely stay. But it’s all up to what he needs and what his family wants.”

For Harris, dealing with daily rumors grew tiresome. He said his relationship with Nets coach Avery Johnson was sound, but he knew it was time to go.

“I wasn’t really fed up,” Harris said. “It was something I’d grown accustomed to. It was a lot of hearsay — obviously, with the Melo situation because it was out there so much. It wasn’t like something where I couldn’t come to work every day, but it was difficult. At the beginning of the season, it was tougher. It kind of set the scene.”

And while every other word from the Nets seems to be “Brooklyn,” Harris said it was hard to buy into that when he kept hearing he had one foot out the door.

“It’s tough,” Harris said. “You want to be there for the turnaround, but that’s not always possible.”

fred.kerber@nypost.com