With just two episodes of the planned 10-part docuseries television event “The Last Dance” broadcast by ESPN, there have already been more than a few gems and nuggets from the behind-the-scenes look at the 1997-98 Chicago Bulls team, including the extraordinary presence of Hall of Fame shooting guard Michael Jordan.

Not every story made the cut in “The Last Dance,” though.

Director Jason Hehir recently revealed on “The Dan Le Batard Show” how a story about the Bulls legend inflating his sophomore year stats was left on the cutting room floor.

Via CBS Sports' Michael Kaskey-Blomain:

“Everyone knows the story of him being cut. We had to cover that, but that's kind of common knowledge. But his rise between sophomore year and senior year, his high school coach finagling him into five-star basketball camps by lying about his stats. He was embellishing his stats just to get him in there because he was not on the map at all. No one was coming down to look at high school kids in Wilmington, North Carolina. He was there for a week and that's what his parents could afford, and he did so well that first week that he got MVP of the entire camp.

You had Patrick Ewing, Len Bias and some other guys were at the camp as well, but Michael, or Mike, at that point, blew everybody away. They begged him to stay for a second week because more college coaches wanted to see him play, and the parents said ‘we can't afford it.' So they said ‘OK, we'll pay for him if he works in the kitchen as a waiter for all the other kids.' Michael got MVP that second week and he was a waiter serving kids fruit punch and grilled cheeses and then going out and wasting these kids later on on the court.”

“The Last Dance,” airing two episodes every Sunday for five weeks, has pulled the curtain behind the legendary run by Jordan and the Bulls, with the 1997-98 season capping off a second three-peat — six championships in eight years. Jordan, selected third overall in the 1984 NBA Draft by the Bulls, has had his career under a spotlight for the umpteenth time, this time while nearly the entire world sits in patience at home during the coronavirus-borne quarantine.

While Jordan and co-star Scottie Pippen were intensely scrutinized through last Sunday's first two episodes, this weekend portends to be perhaps even more interesting as the third chapter promises to revolve around eccentric power forward Dennis Rodman.