{"id":496985,"date":"2026-10-15T13:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T13:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/496985\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T13:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T13:46:08","slug":"prep-talk-the-johnson-family-returns-to-crenshaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/496985\/","title":{"rendered":"Prep talk: The Johnson family returns to Crenshaw"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When it comes to City Section sports royalty, the Johnson family at Crenshaw High is in a class by itself.<\/p>\n

Marques Johnson<\/a> started the legacy in 1971, igniting the rise of Crenshaw basketball before moving on to UCLA and the NBA. He\u2019s a City Section Hall of Famer. His son, Kris, was a City Section player of the year and led Crenshaw to consecutive state titles.<\/p>\n

Now the last of the Johnsons for at least awhile \u2014 6-foot-1 Shiloh Johnson<\/a> \u2014 has transferred to Crenshaw from Windward. She\u2019s the daughter of Marques and is a top junior girls\u2019 basketball player.<\/p>\n

Marques has been a strong supporter of the Crenshaw community and authored the book, \u201cCrenshaw Chronicles.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Just seeing him in the Crenshaw gym this winter with all the City and state championship banners on the walls will be something to enjoy. And look for Shiloh\u2019s siblings and cousins to drop by, too. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s always a great feeling,\u201d Marques said.<\/p>\n

Shiloh is now walking through the halls where her grandfather was a teacher, her aunt was a counselor and four of her five siblings went to school.<\/p>\n

This is a daily look at the positive happenings in high school sports. To submit any news, please email eric.sondheimer@latimes.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When it comes to City Section sports royalty, the Johnson family at Crenshaw High is in a class…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[104932,81263,193069,5836,9342,75702,91512,193070,48,52,51,47,50,49,193065,6310,193066,64548,7756,193068,193067],"class_list":["post-496985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-basketball-player","tag-city-section-hall","tag-consecutive-state-title","tag-crenshaw","tag-daughter","tag-famer","tag-johnson-family","tag-kris","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-marques-johnson","tag-prep-talk","tag-shiloh-johnson","tag-sibling","tag-son","tag-state-championship-banner","tag-top-junior-girl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}