NBA motion-tracking cameras are set to debut for the 2013 season to provide fans with player movement that has never been seen before.

This project makes the NBA the first professional basketball league in the world, and the first sports league in the United States, to use the technology to analyze player movement with the motion-tracking cameras.

The NBA motion-tracking is with the help from STATS and the SportVU cameras. The technology can monitor every move a player makes on the court, gauge how tired he is and can even keep an eye on the job referees are doing, according to the Associated Press.

"At this point, given the value of the data both at the team level and the league level, and the promise that it holds for unlocking some of the secrets for what makes great basketball teams, both for our basketball operations people and for our fans at home, we thought it was the right time to make it a league-wide effort," NBA executive vice president of operations and technology Steve Hellmuth told the AP.

The system of six cameras and accompanying software that delivers the data was first used in Orlando, Fla., during the 2009 Finals between the Magic and the Los Angeles Lakers, according to the AP.

It will provide up-to-minute stats like never seen before. It can show how many times Kevin Garnett touched the ball on a certain side of the court. It's up to the teams and the networks on how they want to use it.

"It's gone from an interesting concept to actually something that's allowing them to take action on a daily basis," STATS Vice President Brian Kopp said. "That was the big change that we knew we needed to make in order for this to be adopted by the teams. What we always wanted to do was to be at this point and have a partnership with the league itself. It's really evolved from a high-level concept, something that seemed interesting, to something that could be actionable and used on a daily basis."