Complex sentence: A 6' 1 guard/forward from Rutherford County, North Carolina, Smawley was one of the first basketball players to regularly use the jump shot, which he developed in an abandoned train depot near his home that was fashioned into a basketball court.
Split into simpler sentences: A 6' 1 guard/forward from Rutherford County, North Carolina, Smawley was one of the first basketball players to regularly use the jump shot. Smawley developed his shot in an abandoned train depot near his home that was fashioned into a basketball court.