The NBA's inaugural award show will have six new awards that will be determined by fan voting.

Dunk of the Year, Best Style, Block of the Year, Assist of the Year, Game Winner of the Year and Top Performance of the Year will be included amongst the traditional categories announced on June 26th.

Dunk of the Year Candidates
Larry Nance Jr. over Brook Lopez
Zach Lavine over Alex Len
Victor Oladipo over Dwight Howard

Best Style
Iman Shumpert
Dwyane Wade
Russell Westbrook

Block of the Year
Kawhi Leonard blocks James Harden
Kristaps Porzingis blocks Spencer Dinwiddie
Hassan Whiteside blocks Pascal Siakam

Game Winner of the Year
Kyrie Irving vs. Warriors
Russell Westbrook vs. Nuggets
Tyler Ulis vs. Celtics

Top Performance of the Year
Devin Booker scores 70 points against Celtics
James Harden with 53 points, 17 assists, 16 rebounds against Knicks
Klay Thompson scores 60 in three quarters against Pacers

Assist of the Year
Draymond Green to Stephen Curry to Kevin Durant
Nikola Jokic to Wilson Chandler
Chris Paul to Brandon Bass

The NBA will announce their All-NBA teams before its inaugural awards show in late June. 

Because certain players will become eligible for supermax extensions due to the rule, teams will need time to make offseason preparations.

Paul George and the Indiana Pacers are the most notable example of a player and franchise that will be impacted by the rule.

The award show takes place on June 26th.

Daryl Morey appeared to subtweet Russell Westbrook when replying to a Tweet by Matt Bullard about how Hakeem Olajuwon made it clear that he wanted every available rebound.

Westbrook averaged a triple double this season and frequently called off the bigs of Oklahoma City Thunder to grab rebounds.

Morey has been active in lobbying for James Harden to win MVP.

@bull50 sounds like some other superstars...

— Daryl Morey (@dmorey) April 19, 2017

Paul George and Chris Paul have been named the NBA's Players of the Month for April.

George averaged an NBA-high 32.8 points and added 8.2 rebounds and 4.5 assists as the Pacers went 5-1 in April to clinch a playoff spot for the sixth time in seven seasons. 

Paul averaged 21.2 points, 9.8 assists and 5.0 rebounds in April while the Clippers went 5-0.

The Indiana Pacers' Nate McMillan and the LA Clippers' Doc Rivers were named the NBA Eastern and Western Conference Coaches of the Month, respectively, for games played in April.

McMillan guided the Pacers to a 5-1 record during April, tied for the best mark in the Eastern Conference. Indiana closed the month and the regular season with five consecutive victories to secure the seventh playoff seed in the East. For the month, the Pacers ranked third in the NBA in scoring (115.5 ppg) and fourth in field goal percentage (50.1) and point differential (plus-11.7). 

Behind Rivers, the Clippers went 5-0 in April to finish as the NBA's only undefeated team for the month and extend their regular-season-ending winning streak to seven games. LA outscored its opponents by a league-best 16.4 points per game and led the NBA in field goal percentage (51.5). On the final day of the regular season, the Clippers defeated the Sacramento Kings 115-95 to clinch the fourth playoff seed in the Western Conference.

Willy Hernangomez and Tyler Ulis have been named the NBA Rookies of the Month for games played in April.

Hernangomez averaged 12.5 points, 8.5 rebounds and 3.0 assists per game.

The 34th pick in the 2016 NBA Draft, Ulis led all rookies with both 20.7 points and 6.8 assists per game in April; the last time a rookie averaged at least this many points and assists for a calendar month was Damian Lillard in March 2013. The 5-10 point guard also averaged 3.8 rebounds and posted shooting percentages of .485 on field goals, .370 on three-pointers and .783 on free throws. Ulis scored 20-plus points in four of his six games during the month, including the highest-scoring game by any NBA rookie for the entire season with a career-high 34 points against Houston on April 2. In a win against Dallas on April 9, Ulis tallied 20 points and 10 assists to record the only 20-point, 10-assist game by a rookie in the league this season.

Daryl Morey was asked by Ethan Sherwood Strauss of ESPN during the TrueHoop Podcast whether he had any concern about making James Harden's MVP case "so vociferously if that can be seen as reflective negatively on other aspects of the team."

Morey has been quite openly campaigning for Harden's MVP candidacy in the media.

"I'm glad you asked that because that's another piece of frickin hypocrisy we have to deal with," said Morey. "Here's the reality, I'll make an analogy: every team gets asked about how involved the owner is. They're either say their owner is involved or they're lying. there's really no other answer. The reality is owners buy teams, they buy them for a reason, they're all involved in their teams in a very significant way. So they're either telling the truth or lying.

"When teams say they're not campaigning for their guy, their either being up front about it like us or they're lying. Or they're basically feeding it to their local beat guy. They're making calls behind the scenes. There's not a single team that doesn't do it. It's complete horeshit."

The Indiana Pacers’ Paul George and the Oklahoma City Thunder’s Russell Westbrook were named NBA Eastern and Western Conference Players of the Week, respectively, for games played Monday, April 3 through Sunday, April 9.

George paced the East in scoring (31.7 ppg) and tied for seventh in rebounding (9.0 rpg) while shooting 57.4 percent from the field as the Pacers went 3-0 for the week to climb into seventh place in the East with two games to play. On April 4, he scored 18 points in the third quarter to helped erase a 19-point deficit before finishing with 35 points, 10 rebounds, three assists and two steals in a 108-90 victory over the Toronto Raptors. On April 6, he tallied 23 points, 10 rebounds and four steals in a 104-89 win over the Milwaukee Bucks.

Westbrook led the Thunder to a 3-1 week behind averages of 32.5 points (second in the West), 12.5 rebounds (third) and 10.3 assists (third). On April 9, he recorded his 42nd triple-double with 50 points, 16 rebounds and 10 assists in a 106-105 victory over the Denver Nuggets, breaking Oscar Robertson’s 55-year-old record for most triple-doubles (41) in a season. It also marked the third time Westbrook scored 50 points in a triple-double this season. Westbrook also logged his 19th 40-point game of the season with 45 points in a 103-100 win against the Memphis Grizzlies on April 5.

The NBA will no longer allow team broadcasters to vote upon end of season awards, according to Pacers' play-by-play man Mark J. Boyle.

In the past, team employed broadcasters represented a large percentage of the media vote. Because of the potential conflict of interest involved in having team employees vote on awards that determine salaries for certain players.

The NBA's new designated veteran player extension will be one of the more impactful aspects of media voting due to its All-NBA qualification. 

While most were thoughtful and genuine voters, some of the more egregious votes in the past have come from these types of media members.

Giannis Antetokounmpo and Damian Lillard have been named the Kia NBA Eastern and Western Conference Players of the Month, respectively, for games played in March.
 
Antetokounmpo helped the Bucks finish an Eastern Conference-best 14-4 in March, the franchise’s first calendar month with at least 14 victories since going 16-2 in February 1971.  The 22-year-old from Greece averaged 22.4 points (ninth in the East), 8.4 rebounds (10th in the East), 4.8 assists, 1.78 blocked shots (fourth in the East) and 1.33 steals in 18 games. He also shot 51.4 percent from the field, his fifth straight month above 50.0. Antetokounmpo posted five point-rebound double-doubles during the month, including three that featured more than 30 points each. The All-Star forward capped the month by recording 28 points, 14 rebounds and nine assists in a 108-105 overtime victory against the Detroit Pistons on March 31.     
Behind Lillard, the Trail Blazers went an NBA-best 13-3 in March to surge into eighth place in the Western Conference. Lillard ranked third in the NBA in scoring (29.1 ppg) and tied for fourth in three-pointers made (55) to go with 6.0 assists, 4.4 rebounds and 1.44 steals in 16 games. The 26-year-old guard shot 48.3 percent from the field, 41.7 percent from three-point range and 87.7 percent from the free throw line.  Lillard posted eight games with at least 30 points, including a season-high 49-point performance in a 115-104 road win over the Miami Heat on March 19. He matched a career high with nine three-pointers and hit 12-of-12 at the free throw line against Miami.