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Pro wrestling legend Ric Flair took another shot at Los Angeles Lakers star Luka Doncic ahead of the team’s Game 4 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder on Monday.
Flair criticized Doncic for missing games due to a hamstring injury and doubled down on his remarks in an interview on “Yahoo Sports Daily.”
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Ric Flair attends the 44th Annual Sports Emmy Awards at Frederick P. Rose Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York on May 22, 2023. (Arturo Holmes/Getty Images)
“I’m not being hard on Luka. I’m having fun, I’m such a Laker fan, and I honestly believe, of course, I don’t know anything about the extent of the injury, but the first time I saw him… I did the same thing to the 49ers quarterback a few years ago. I said, ‘Get back in the game, man,'” Flair said.
“You know, I took a cortisone shot, I had a broken ankle, so I don’t have a lot of sympathy for the hamstring. But you know, they’re protecting the future and I don’t blame them. They got guaranteed money.”
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Lakers players Luka Doncic and Austin Reaves talk while sitting on the bench during the second half of Game 1 of the first-round NBA playoffs against the Rockets at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, California on April 20, 2026. (Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
Flair notably suffered from injuries during his professional wrestling career.
He suffered a broken back in three places while surviving a plane crash in North Carolina in 1975. He was told he would never wrestle again before embarking on a historic career. He was also injured while working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) in 2011. Flair also revealed in 2016 that he was struck by lightning.
Last week, Flair called for the Lakers to trade Doncic if he didn’t want to battle through his injury.
Luka Doncic of the Los Angeles Lakers watches play against the Oklahoma City Thunder in the second half of Game 2 of the second round of the NBA playoffs, May 7, 2026, in Oklahoma City. (Nate Billing/AP)
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Doncic’s hamstring injury cost him the final five games of the regular season and each of the Lakers’ playoff games.
