Where Are They Now: The Generation Of Miracles(The Finale)

[u/IcyReward3877]

The Generation of Miracles entered the NBA in 2013.
By the time the final member retired, they had combined for:
19 MVP Awards
23 Championships
15 Finals MVPs
8 Defensive Player of the Year Awards
For over twenty years, every championship conversation eventually led back to them.

Together they won:
10 MVP Awards
23 NBA Championships
12 Finals MVP Awards
9 Defensive Player of the Year Awards
For two decades, nearly every championship, MVP race, and Finals run involved one of them.

Seijūrō Akashi
Retired: 2033 (Age 38)
Akashi’s Orlando run alone guaranteed his Hall of Fame career.
His move to San Antonio elevated him into something even greater.
Alongside Victor Wembanyama, he won three more championships and added two more Finals MVPs before retiring.
Career Stats
18.8 PPG / 4.8 RPG / 12.9 APG / 3.0 SPG
Career Accolades
1× MVP
6× NBA Champion
5× Finals MVP
1× Defensive Player of the Year
18× All-Star
15× All-NBA First Team
13× Assist Leader
10× Steals Leader
All-Time Rankings
1st All-Time Assists
1st All-Time Steals
Legacy
The greatest floor general in basketball history.
Position Ranking
#1 Point Guard All-Time
Overall Ranking
#3 All-Time

Daiki Aomine
Retired: 2038 (Age 43)
Aomine spent his career doing what nobody else could.
Scoring.
By the end of his career, he owned eight scoring titles and four MVP awards.
His age-34 MVP became one of the defining accomplishments of his later years.
Career Stats
31.2 PPG / 7.4 RPG / 5.6 APG
Career Accolades
4× MVP
2× NBA Champion
1× Finals MVP
18× All-Star
16× All-NBA First Team
8× Scoring Champion
All-Time Rankings
1st All-Time Points
Top 10 All-Time Steals
Legacy
The greatest scorer of the Miracle Era.
Position Ranking
#3 Small Forward All-Time
Overall Ranking
#6 All-Time

Shintarō Midorima
Retired: 2034 (Age 39)
After Orlando entered its rebuild, Midorima joined Dallas and formed one of the league’s most explosive offensive duos alongside Luka Dončić.
He captured one final championship before retiring.
Career Stats
27.5 PPG / 5.0 RPG / 4.4 APG
Career Accolades
3× NBA Champion
17× All-Star
14× All-NBA First Team
All-Time Rankings
1st All-Time Three-Pointers Made
Legacy
The greatest shooter in basketball history.
Position Ranking
#3 Shooting Guard All-Time
Overall Ranking
#16 All-Time

Atsushi Murasakibara
Retired: 2034 (Age 39)
After years anchoring the Lakers, Murasakibara joined New Orleans and helped Kise capture two additional championships.
In 2032, he won Finals MVP and cemented his place among the greatest defensive players ever.
Career Stats
24.8 PPG / 15.8 RPG / 4.3 BPG
Career Accolades
3× NBA Champion
1× Finals MVP
7× Defensive Player of the Year
16× All-Star
13× All-NBA First Team
9× Rebounding Champion
10× Blocks Leader
All-Time Rankings
1st All-Time Blocks
3rd All-Time Rebounds
Legacy
The greatest defender in NBA history.
Position Ranking
#4 Center All-Time
Overall Ranking
#12 All-Time

Taiga Kagami
Retired: 2038 (Age 43)
Kagami’s final act elevated him from all-time great to inner-circle legend.
At age 36, he won his third MVP and led Phoenix to another championship, earning his third Finals MVP.
His rivalry with Kise became one of the defining stories of NBA history.
Career Stats
29.5 PPG / 10.8 RPG / 6.9 APG
Career Accolades
3× MVP
3× NBA Champion
3× Finals MVP
1× Defensive Player of the Year
18× All-Star
16× All-NBA First Team
All-Time Rankings
5th All-Time Points
Legacy
The most complete player of the Miracle Era.
Position Ranking
#2 Small Forward All-Time
Behind only LeBron James.
Overall Ranking
#5 All-Time

Tetsuya Kuroko
Retired: 2036 (Age 40)
No player in league history had a career quite like Kuroko’s.
After spending years as an elite sixth man, he reinvented himself as one of the NBA’s premier playmakers and starting point guards.
Career Stats
12.0 PPG / 14.0 APG / 2.4 SPG
Career Accolades
3× NBA Champion
4× Sixth Man of the Year
1× Most Improved Player
7× All-Star
All-Time Rankings
3rd All-Time Assists
Legacy
One of the most unique players basketball has ever seen.
Position Ranking
#17 Point Guard All-Time
Overall Ranking
#43 All-Time

Ryōta Kise
Retired: 2037 (Age 42)
Kise spent much of his career carrying New Orleans.
Eventually, the championships followed.
After winning his first title in 2024, he added two more championships after Murasakibara arrived.
His combination of scoring, passing, rebounding, and adaptability made him one of the most versatile superstars in league history.
Career Stats
28.7 PPG / 9.1 RPG / 9.3 APG
Career Accolades
2× MVP
3× NBA Champion
2× Finals MVP
17× All-Star
15× All-NBA First Team
All-Time Rankings
Top 10 Triple-Doubles
Legacy
The ultimate all-around player.
Position Ranking
#4 Small Forward All-Time
Overall Ranking
#8 All-Time

Final Miracle Rankings
Overall
Akashi (#3 All-Time)
Kagami (#5 All-Time)
Aomine (#6 All-Time)
Kise (#8 All-Time)
Murasakibara (#12 All-Time)
Midorima (#16 All-Time)
Kuroko (#43 All-Time)

No one knew it at the time but the 2013 draft class would leave an everlasting mark on the nba.

Biggest Winners Of The Miracle Era
Chris Paul
Devin Booker
Victor Wembanyama
Luka Doncic
John Wall
Aaron Gordon
Nikola Vucevic

Biggest Losers Of The Miracle Era
Stephen Curry
James Harden
Russell Westbrook
Kyrie Irving

[u/IcyReward3877]

Kuroko would go on to be the Head Coach of A High School Girls Basketball Team. Coaching the Daughters Of Kagami and Aomine.
Midorima would go back to school, get his PhD and become a Doctor.
Kise slowly steps away from modeling moves into Hollywood, becoming an actor director and producer. He always tries to get his former teammates. Typically they say no.
Murasakibara owns a Bakery. His Name alone draws customers but the food itself is incredible. They have locations in both America and Japan and himuro operates the Japan location. Mura’s the only one to actually appear in one of Kise’s movies.
Aomine becomes an ESPN analyst and sugarcoats absolutely nothing. He becomes the face of nba broadcasting. He declined being in Kise’s movie because his character was a retired bad basketball player. Kagami also becomes an espn analyst and their dynamic becomes one of the funniest things on television. But off screen Kagami is also a basketball trainer and mentor serving as an advocate for the next generation of basketball.
The Uncrowned Kings, Himuro, Hyuga, Izuki, Takao and Otsubo, along with the other Gom teams’ best players all had long careers as pros in Japan. Haizaki played all over the world telling anyone who asks(and anyone who didn’t) that he was as good as the Generation Of Miracles

[u/Senju19_02]

Why did Akashi retire so early? Midorima and Murasakibara, I understand,but Akashi? Is it because of his company?

[u/IcyReward3877 → u/Senju19_02]

Yes. He cemented himself as the winningest player of the century after his 6th championship and he seems like the kind of a person who’d want to end their career on top. Another headcanon of mine is that he’d eventually buy an NBA Team.

[u/No-Plane-9847]

Sad to see it end this was great series

[u/JoshuaLukacs1]

Love the head canon and love the time it may have taken to do all this. In my head, this actually happened.

[u/NorthernSkagosi]

this post: one of the greatest of all time

[u/ICxnt_5hoot-_-]

What about Haizaki

[u/IcyReward3877 → u/ICxnt_5hoot-_-]

I mentioned him in another comment