Terry Rozier really wanted to be Knicks point-guard solution

The Knicks’ first choice for a free-agent point guard was on the Garden court Saturday while the one they signed sat out his ninth straight game with a hamstring strain.

As The Post reported, the Knicks targeted Terry Rozier in free agency but wound up losing him to the Hornets, getting outbid in a three-year, $58 million deal by Charlotte.

The Knicks wound up with Elfrid Payton, whose been out since the season’s fourth game versus Chicago after signing a two-year, $15 million pact.

Rozier thought at one point he’d wind up a Knick.

“It was probably one of my first options,’’ Rozier said. “I probably was going to make it happen. Other things happened and I ended up going to Charlotte. It was the…