Every day that Google doesn’t announce the official street date for the Google Glass device, the intriguing wearable technology gains some new interesting application in the professional world. Late last summer, an Ohio State University surgeon started using the Glass to give medical students a first-person view of advanced medical procedures. Just this week, L’Oreal linked up with Google Glass to create salon hairstyle tutorial videos. And now, Google Glass is entering a new field, not just medicine or professional hairstyling but professional basketball.

That’s right: according to a recent report from ABC News, the Sacramento Kings will become the first team in the NBA – and the first team in professional sports – to incorporate the Google Glass into gameplay and fan interaction. Spearheaded by Jim Kovach, a former NFL player and the business development leader for an electronics company called CrowdOptic, the new basketball-bound application for Google Glass will give sporting spectators something they haven’t really seen before.

Google’s wearable device will be worn by both Sacramento Kings players and professional announcers alike during games. As with the Ohio State surgery situation, the Google Glass devices will always be on and filming while players are on the court, capturing action-packed first-person footage of passes, blocks, dunks, three-pointers, rebounds, and every other aspect of a basketball game. The footage will then be streamed intermittently to the basketball arena’s Jumbotron and to sporting networks, who will then broadcast it at certain points for spectators to see on their screens at home. In other words, it’s just another way of filming a basketball game, one that seeks to bring viewers into the action and adrenaline of the sport like never before.

“A long time ago, I played in the NFL and the view that I miss is the one of the field,” Jim Kovach told ABC News. “If you’re one of the players, you have the best view.”

Undoubtedly, the new first-person Google Glass footage will be a big hit among sports fans who want to be more involved with a basketball game than just a few stock camera angles allow. Whether it’s as big a hit among athletes has not yet been revealed, though it certainly seems as if the Glass could prove distracting for players trying to “get in the zone.” Furthermore, it is conceivable that a Google Glass device could be knocked off a players’ head in a fall or a moment of contact with another player, meaning that the expensive devices could easily end up smashed up and broken on the basketball court.

However, despite some lingering questions to be answered, the Sacramento Kings and the NBA as a whole are extremely excited to start using the Glass and see how everything pans out. The Kings will debut the new Google Glass program on January 24, in a game against the Indiana Pacers. If all goes well, Kovach thinks that first-person action shots will not only become a part of Kings basketball, but of NBA basketball across the board.