Josh Hart showed signs Saturday night of the impactful player and prized in-season addition to the Knicks from one year ago.

Hart returned to the rotation after sitting out his first game of the season on Thursday with a sore left knee, contributing 10 points and nine rebounds in Saturday’s 126-100 win over the Raptors.

“I don’t want to overlook what OG [Anunoby] and Josh brought to the game,” Tom Thibodeau said after the game. “They made so many tough plays for us and that got us going.”

Despite the emotion of the first game against Toronto since the Knicks traded RJ Barrett and Immanuel Quickley in the late-December deal that brought in Anunoby, the Raptors held a 26-16 lead when Hart entered the game with 5:09 left in the first quarter.

He proceeded to hustle back to block a layup attempt by Dennis Schroder and he buried two shots for five points to help the Knicks tie the score by the end of the session.

Barrett laughed off Carmelo Anthony’s critiques with a little self deprecation.

Asked about Anthony’s verbal shots from his “7PM in Brooklyn” podcast last week — which included comments that Barrett is “just a bland player” and “you don’t know if he’s going to get four [points] or 26” — the recently traded former Knick replied, “I think it was funny.

Because the next day I had four points. The game before I had 24, so he was almost right. … He’s a Hall of Famer, man.”

Barrett, was referencing his four-point night on Jan. 12 against the Jazz, which came between games in which he scored 24 points apiece.

Center Jakob Poeltl (ankle) was out for the Raptors, and the Knicks finished with a whopping 61-31 rebounding edge.

“We knew that they would play small, so we thought we have a big advantage rebounding wise, so let’s really try to emphasize that and take advantage of it,” Thibodeau said.

Just past the midpoint of the season, the Knicks have overtaken the Lakers and the Warriors for the highest average ticket price on the secondary market this season, according to a Logitix study, at $264.27 per ticket.

The Knicks ranked third last season behind those two teams at $210.91 per ticket.