Despite apparent flu-like symptoms the night before and during the match, Jordan - through willpower and determination - scored 38 points to help his Chicago Bulls win 90-88 in Game 5.
In the documentary, Jordan - with personal trainer Tim Grover and best friend George Koehler - recalls ordering pizza from their hotel room in Salt Lake City, Utah the night before the game.
According to Grover, they became suspicious when, as they remember, five people arrived at the door to deliver the pizza.
Despite the alleged doubts, Jordan ate all the pizza by himself, and later that night, Grover said he had received a phone call that the quintuple NBA quintuple was "literally curled up in position "on the floor of her hotel room, complaining of food poison symptoms.
"I ate the pizza," said Jordan in the documentary. "All alone. No one else ate the pizza. I woke up around 2:30 am throwing up left and right ... It really wasn't the flu match. It was food poisoning."
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However, the man who claims to have made and delivered the famous pizza called the version of the incident described in the documentary "a pile of shit".
Craig Fite, who was a Bulls fan living in Salt Lake City, was a newly appointed assistant manager at Pizza Hut in 1997.
After his store received the pizza order from Jordan, Fite personally took over the cooking and delivery of the pizza, even though it was not his normal job responsibility.
"I remember saying this," I'll make the pizza because I don't want you to do anything, "" he told "The Big Show" on 1280 The Zone in Salt Lake City. "And then I said to the driver, 'You're going to take me there. And this will be my first delivery.'"
Such was his love for the Bulls - he admits he named his son after Jordan - Fite personally made sure that the pizza was perfectly cooked.
"I followed all the rules," said Fite. "At the time, I was trying to impress the store manager."
Upon arriving at the hotel, Fite remembers having the impression of having been "hit in the face with cigar smoke" while climbing on Jordan's floor at the hotel, before seeing the six-time champion of the NBA in his hotel room while delivering pizza.
Discussing the incident that happened 23 years ago, Fite disputes the claim that five people were delivering an "extra, large, thin and crispy peperoni pizza".
"It's a bunch of shit," said Fite. "Sorry, we were five frightening looking guys that the guy felt threatened? I guess you have to sell your book but it really wasn't that exciting.
"There were two of us. I didn't even have a lot of people working [at the Pizza Hut]. "
And according to Fite, the accusation that pizza caused food poisoning in Jordan is also widespread.
"Did you diagnose it? Did you go to the doctor? All of this is just innuendo from them," said Fite.
"One thing I remind everyone is that he smoked so many cigars. They had the windows open. He didn't have a shirt or he was in a tank top. Around 3 or 4 in the afternoon in Park City, the sun is gone behind this mountain so it's colder up there. "
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Upset teammates
Fite is not alone in disputing certain stories from the documentary "The Last Dance".
Horace Grant, who won three titles alongside Jordan with the Bulls, called it "so-called documentary", calling into question the accuracy of some montages.
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"I would say [it was] entertaining, but we know, who was there as teammates, that about 90% - I don't know if I can say it on the air, but BS in terms of reality, "said Grant Tuesday in an interview with ESPN 1000's Kap and Co. radio show.
"It was not real - because a lot of things [Jordan] said to some of his teammates - his teammates came back to him. But it was sort of edited from the documentary, if you want to call it a documentary. "
Grant, who spent seven years with the Bulls, is accused by Jordan of having leaked stories for "The Jordan Rules", a book that sometimes portrayed the Hall of Famer in an unflattering light in the documentary, which Grant vehemently denies this.
