MICHAEL JORDAN’S former Chicago Bulls team-mate Horace Grant has branded the NBA legend a “liar” and “snitch” over “bulls***” documentary, The Last Dance.

The ten-part Netflix show has proven to be a real hit with basketball fans for the incredible insight into Jordan’s final year at the Bulls – and flashbacks to his formative years.

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Horace Grant, right, has hit back at Michael Jordan for calling him a ‘snitch’

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Jordan believes Grant was the source for journalist Sam Smith’s 1992 book, The Jordan Rules
But Grant – who features heavily in the documentary – has called the show “bulls***” after Jordan called HIM a snitch.

In 1992, investigative journalist Sam Smith released a book called The Jordan Rules – which chronicles the Bulls’ 1990-91 championship-winning season.

The book constantly references a source, with Jordan adamant the insider was Grant – who was a Bull between 1987 and 1994, winning three rings in their 1991-93 “three-peat”.

But Grant has lashed out at MJ, saying he simply has a grudge on him – because he was never anything more than a close friend of Smith.

Hitting back at Jordan’s incredible allegation, Grant told Chicago’s ESPN 1000: “[He] puts this lie out that I was the source behind [the book].

“Sam and I have always been great friends. We’re still great friends.

“But the sanctity of that locker room… I would never put anything personal out there.

“The mere fact that Sam Smith was an investigative reporter. He had to have two sources, TWO, to write a book.

“Why would MJ just point me out? It’s only a grudge, man. I’m telling you, it was only a grudge. And I think he proved that during this so-called documentary.

“If you ever say something about him, he’s going to cut you off, he’s going to try to destroy your character.”

He said that I was the snitch, but still he brings up his rookie year going into one of his team-mates’ rooms and seeing coke, weed and women. That’s a damn snitch right there.

Horace Grant On Michael Jordan
Grant backed up his claims by pointing to Air Jordan’s relationship with Space Jam co-star Charles Barkley.

The pair were once close friends, but haven’t spoken in years after Barkley made some comments about Jordan’s stint as general manager of the Washington Wizards.

Grant continued by saying Jordan is a “snitch” himself, after he spoke out about a room full of his team-mates doing drugs together in an earlier episode of the show.

The former Bulls centre said: “He said that I was the snitch, but still after 35 years he brings up his rookie year going into one of his team-mates’ rooms and seeing coke, weed and women.

“My point is: Why the hell did he want to bring that up? What’s that got to do with anything?

“I mean, if you want to call somebody a snitch, that’s a damn snitch right there.”

Grant went on to put the legitimacy of the documentary in doubt, suggesting it had been cleverly edited

He roared: “It’s BS (bulls***) in terms of the realness of it.

“It wasn’t real — because a lot of things [Jordan] said to some of his team-mates, that his team-mates went back at him.

“But all of that was kind of edited out of the documentary, if you want to call it a documentary.”

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Horace Grant, pictured here speaking in The Last Dance, is furious at the way the show has been edited

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Grant also lashed out at Jordan’s treatment of Scottie Pippen
In another earlier episode, Jordan discusses Scottie Pippen’s infamous “Migraine Game” – Game 7 of the Eastern Conference finals against fierce rivals the Detroit Pistons in 1990.

Pippen, rightly portrayed as the NBA’s second-best player at the time and most-criminally underpaid in the doc, suffered that day with a serious migraine and struggled with his vision and feelings of nausea.

But Jordan appeared to scoff when asked about Pippen’s illness which prompted him to ask to sit out the final 1.8 seconds of the game – with Grant suggesting he got a raw deal.

Grant said: “I have never seen a No2 guy, as decorated as Scottie Pippen, portrayed so badly.

“In terms of the migraine, in terms of the 1.8 seconds, [Jordan calling him] selfish. I have never seen this in all of my life.