The pie thickens.

A new claim has been made in the Michael Jordan pizza scandal thanks to a local chef from the Park City area who has come forward to debunk the working Pizza Hut theory with some spicy new intel.

“I’m going to set you straight on the pizza thing here. … Here’s the deal: It wasn’t Pizza Hut because Pizza Hut would have been closed,” a caller who identified himself as Otto told the Rich Eisen Show on Tuesday. “During ‘The Last Dance,’ they said it was late night, nothing was open. Pizza Hut is closed early, everything closes early in Park City in 1997, especially in the summer.”

The events leading up to Michael Jordan’s infamous “flu game,” have rapidly morphed into a poisoned pizza conspiracy theory since the finale of ESPN’s docuseries, “The Last Dance” aired on Sunday evening.

Otto, who has apparently been sitting on this information for 13 years, provided a lengthy backstory to bolster his credibility with Eisen and his listeners: During the 1997 NBA Finals, he was working at a sushi restaurant at an outdoor mall connected to the Marriott Summer Lodge where the Bulls were staying. The well-connected source alleges that with Pizza Hut closed, Jordan ordered the late-night snack from a now-defunct local bar/restaurant in the Summer Lodge that would have been open at that hour.

“I have a friend who’s a bartender there and he’s told the story from Day One that late at night they got a call — the owner of the bar delivered the pizza himself,” Otto said. “I don’t know if it was two, three, four, five people — I just know that the owner of the restaurant went up there that night, late night with the pizza run.”

Otto’s claim runs contrary to the information obtained from Craig Fite, an assistant manager of a Park City Pizza Hut at the time, who claims to have prepared the possibly poisoned pie that inflicted “flu-like symptoms” on Jordan during Game 5 against the Utah Jazz.

“I’m 100-percent certain it wasn’t food poisoning,” Fite said on Monday. “Or, it wasn’t that pizza.”

“I don’t know [Fite],” Otto said. “This guy might have delivered a pizza on another night, but Pizza Hut would have been closed late night. It would have been closed [at 10:30 p.m.]. 1997 in the summer time here — everything closes early, but this was more of a bar. They had food there but they were set up as a bar with a liquor license for a bar here in Utah.”

Otto says that while his story is true, the preparer was no saboteur.

“It’s legit,” he said. “It wasn’t specifically made bad. … The pizza could have made him sick, anything else could have made him sick, but pizza can make you sick.”

Otto closes with a final nugget of information that further deepens the conspiracy theory.

“One of the investors in that restaurant is (sportscaster) Jim Lampley,” he said.