Donning a JaVale McGee No. 34 jersey while perched on a ladder in front of Pepsi Center on Wednesday was , a local graffiti artist who has freehand spray-painted a number of murals around the city of and .
As on the court in their season opener, Acosta was just feet away, framing the visages of Kenneth Faried, Ty Lawson and Arron Afflalo, one spray of paint at a time, starting at 8:30 a.m. and finishing a little after 10:30 p.m.
On Thursday, the billboard went up at the intersection of Broadway St. and Louisiana Ave., where it will stay for a month before rotating to another of the Nuggets’ billboard lcoations around the city.
Acosta and the Nuggets teamed with , an advertising company that operates more than 400 billboards throughout the state, on the project. The mural now stands as one of the few, if not the only, painted billboards in the area; most are digital displays.
As the team and Acosta brainstormed ideas that could be completed in the short time span, they settled on an image of three players:
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As the day wore on, the sprays of paint quickly took shape …
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… thanks to a little help from SuperMascot Rocky …
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… until the faces of Faried, Lawson and Afflalo became clear …
(Andy Cross, The Denver Post)
… and, by nightfall, required only some finishing touches.
(Nicki Jhabvala, The Denver Post)
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