The Warriors head coach has a different recollection of what happened (Pictures: Getty / NBC)

Steve Kerr says he remembers his infamous fight with Chicago Bulls teammate Michael Jordan very differently to how the legendary NBA superstar retold it in The Last Dance documentary.

The two players came to blows in a practice session during the 1995-96 season, their first together after MJ returned from his one-and-a-half-year spell as a baseball player.

In The Last Dance, Jordan claimed the punch-up was sparked after head coach Phil Jackson continually called soft fouls on him, feeling the Bulls boss was being overly protective of Kerr.

Kerr won three NBA titles alongside MJ and two more with the Spurs (Picture: Getty)

‘So one day at practice, Phil puts Steve Kerr guarding me,’ explained Jordan. ‘Phil sensed my aggression, but he was trying to tone me down, and he starts calling these ticky-tack fouls.

‘Now I’m getting mad, because for you to be protecting this guy, that’s not going to help us when we play New York. That’s not going to help us when we play these teams that are very physical. The next time he did it, I just haul off on Kerr. When I foul Steve Kerr, I said, “Now, that’s a f***ing foul.”

In the documentary, Kerr adds his side of the story, saying: ‘I have a lot of patience as a human being, but I tend to snap at some point because I’m extremely competitive, too. I’m just not really good enough to back it up, usually. But I’m going to fight.’

At that point he hit MJ, with Jordan recalling: ‘He hauls off and hits me in the chest, and I just haul off and hit him right in the f***ing eye. And Phil just throws me out of practice.’

However, Kerr – who now coaches the Golden State Warriors – says the incident played out rather different to how MJ described it and revealed that Jackson did not even witness the fight.

‘I had a different memory from what Michael described on the show,’ Kerr said on the Green Light podcast, having now seen the documentary.

‘My memory was that Phil had gone upstairs to his office while we were scrimmaging because he had to take a phone call from the league or something, and that’s when we got into it.

Kerr has coached the Golden State Warriors to three NBA titles (Picture: Getty)

‘So, Phil came down to see what was going on. And I remember him coming over to me, he goes, “You’re gonna have to clean that up.” And I go, “My eye or my relationship with Michael?”’

Kerr isn’t the only former Chicago Bulls player to dispute some of the events depicted in The Last Dance, with Horace Grant slamming the documentary as ‘90% BS in terms of the realness of it’ and Scottie Pippen reportedly unhappy with how he was represented too.