Community activist Gizelle Knight's first reaction was unfiltered, raw emotion.
"I said, 'Oh damn, this is bad ass," she said laughing. "Chris Paul, did you see his blue? That blue, it just like pops. They just look so realistic and you got the people behind them marching. It made me feel like it captured the 'Black Lives Matter' movement."
Paul was impressed, too.
"It's pretty special and powerful," he said.
As part of 'Black History Matters' mural project celebrating 28 days of Black History Month, artist Anthony Farias led a team that created a 20-by-60-foot mural on Phoenix Suns Arena featuring Mercury players Brianna Turner and Skylar Diggins-Smith, Suns coach Monty Williams and guards Jevon Carter and Paul.