This is what Ike Hilliard wants the Giants to know: If they keep him around they will have a fiercely motivated receiver who vows to make them or any other team see just how much money he’s truly worth.

“If they get rid of me, they get rid of me,” Hilliard told The Post yesterday from his home in Miami. “If they don’t I’m a Giant. Either way, I intend to have my best year.”

This is not merely lip service. Hilliard has re-sculpted his once rail-thin body, his troublesome right big toe feels better than ever after a second procedure and he says he’s ready to push aside any and all distractions.

With this year’s NFL Draft arriving on Saturday, reports have circulated that the Giants are willing to trade Hilliard – their first-round pick in 1997 – but they want nothing less than “a bonafide second-round pick” according to one source.

GM Ernie Accorsi yesterday was adamant that “I haven’t talked to anybody” about trading Hilliard and that “there are no trade talks going on.”

Everyone knows by now that the root of Hilliard’s discontent is money. Last month he received a roster bonus of $767,000 and he’ll play this season for a salary of $767,000. He views the two new deals to Amani Toomer as a sign that the Giants do not hold him in high regard.

“I came back two months early from toe surgery last year and I still scored more touchdowns than any healthy receiver on the team,” said Hilliard, who had six TDs to Toomer’s five.

A source close to Hilliard confirmed he wants to remain with the Giants as long as he’s satisfied financially.

He’s certainly not sitting around and sulking. After playing at 195 pounds he’s bulked up to 205 on his way to 210, he says, working out with weights for the first time in his life.

“This year I’ll deliver the blows instead of taking ’em,” Hilliard said.

“If the Giants didn’t believe in me I wouldn’t have started the past five years,” he said. “I don’t think I’m going anywhere.”