The Post’s Steve Serby chatted with the 25-year-old point guard the Nets acquired from Dallas in the Jason Kidd trade.
Q: NBA players you would pay to watch play?
A: LeBron; Kobe; Dwight Howard.
Q: Why would a fan pay to watch Devin Harris?
A: Blazing speed (chuckles). Like a Tasmanian devil!
Q: What drives you?
A: The challenge to belong.
Q: But you already belong.
A: It’s just the challenge to be better, to be in the same group of guys where I think I should be.
Q: Following Steve Nash in Dallas and now Jason Kidd in New Jersey?
A: I just try to be me and just try to play the way I know I can and try to get the fans and the players to accept me for who I am.
Q: What kind of impact can you make with the Nets?
A: I think I can make a big impact. We still have talent.
Q: As a Packers fan growing up in Milwaukee, your reaction to Brett Favre retiring?
A: I was devastated.
Q: What made Favre so endearing?
A: Everybody could relate to him; the kinda guy you live next door to.
Q: You were at the 1996 NFC Championship game against the Panthers at Lambeau.
A: Probably the coldest I’ve ever been.
Q: You’ve worn a cheesehead?
A: Yeah, I put a couple on; I didn’t like the way it looked.
Q: Favorite March Madness memory at Wisconsin?
A: That’s easy – we were down (by 13) with four minutes to go and we ended up beating (Tulsa) with a last-second shot to go to the Sweet 16.
Q: Who hit the shot?
A: Freddie Owens, one of my childhood friends; I gave it to him.
Q: The first time you played at the Garden your rookie year with the Mavs?
A: They were booing the Knicks. I think we were up 40 by halftime.
Q: What’s wrong with the Knicks?
A: I think they just have a lot of players at the same position. They haven’t found the right mix.
Q: How long did it take you to get over losing the 2006 NBA Finals to the Heat?
A: The whole summer. It was tough.
Q: What happened?
A: Mental breakdown. Any time you win the first two games of a series and you don’t win another game … they broke us mentally.
Q: Mark Cuban, 25 words or less?
A: Tremendous business understanding; great owner from the standpoint of giving players the best things they need; probably the worst owner as far as yelling at the refs.
Q: Avery Johnson?
A: He had a lot of different sides to him. He’s a funny coach … he’d be a bit of an in-your-face type coach. He definitely understood what the team needed at the time.
Q: Lawrence Frank?
A: (Chuckles) That’s not fair! I’ve only had him for a week.
Q: The Tim Donaghy scandal shocked you?
A: Tim’s probably one of the few (NBA referees) I knew by name; we always joked around a little bit.
Q: You forgot your pants at a Big Ten Media Day?
A: I had stayed at a friend’s house the night before. I found out that morning I was named preseason Big Ten Player of the Year. … They fell out of the garment bag. I had to borrow my friend’s dad’s pants. We’re about the same height; it didn’t look too crazy.
Q: You’ve given guys like Tony Parker fits. Who’s the toughest guy to defend?
A: Any guy who has the ultimate green light and can put up any shot at any time.
Q: Did you get a bum rap for having trouble with the bigger guards, (such as Baron Davis)?
A: I think it’s a little bit unfair; most of my career I’ve had to guard 2 guards and I’m a point guard.
Q: A college roommate and childhood friend, Latrell Fleming, collapsed at practice and was diagnosed with an enlarged heart.
A: You wake up one day and you can’t play anymore; nothing is promised for tomorrow. You gotta play the game like you might not play tomorrow.
Q: The most trouble you got into as a kid?
A: I used to get in fights in middle school. I was one of those scrappy guys; it didn’t take much to set me off.
Q: Marriage?
A: Probably one day.
Q: Ideal mate?
A: Someone who doesn’t like sports … laid-back … funny, smart.
Q: Why someone who doesn’t like sports?
A: It consumes so much of my life.
Q: Where did you go to dinner with your parents on your birthday (Feb. 27)?
A: Nobu.
Q: You like sushi?
A: No, I just like Nobu. I get the rock shrimp.
Q: The first time you saw NYC was at the NBA Draft … what do you remember seeing?
A: Times Square, the Empire State Building.
Q: Did you go to the top of the Empire State Building?
A: I’m afraid of heights.
Q: Are you living in a hotel?
A: I moved into Jason Kidd’s apartment (in Edgewater, NJ).
Q: What’s it like?
A: It’s beautiful. I can see the whole city of New York.
Q: Funniest Net?
A: Marcus Williams. He comes up with these things out of the woodwork. You never know what he’s talking about.
Q: Favorite childhood memory?
A: First family vacation … Disneyland. I just remember chasing around Mickey; I didn’t see him until the last day.
Q: Most embarrassing moment?
A: I made a layup for the wrong team. My dad (the coach) was getting all over me – “What are you doing!?”
Q: You’ve been described as a gym rat.
A: I used to go to the Y at like 8 o’clock in the morning and wouldn’t leave ’til 4 or 5.
Q: Best piece of advice your father gave you.
A: Be yourself.
Q: You’ve been told you look like Barack Obama?
A: I don’t see the resemblance.
Q: Hobbies?
A: I go see a lot of movies. … I like to bowl.
Q: Three dinner guests?
A: Michael Jordan; Martin Luther King; Noah.
Q: Favorite movie?
A: “War.”
Q: Favorite sports movie?
A: “Hoosiers.”
Q: Favorite actor?
A: Will Smith.
Q: Favorite comedian?
A: Cedric The Entertainer; Jamie Foxx.
Q: What would you want your legacy to be?
A: Just a guy who won games and did it any way he could. I just want to be known as a winner.

