Original: He wrote the original basketball rulebook, founded the University of Kansas basketball program, and lived to see basketball adopted as an Olympic demonstration sport in 1904 and as an official event at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.
Simplified: Naismith wrote the original basketball rulebook and started the University of Kansas basketball program. He lived to see basketball becaome an Olympic demonstration sport in 1904 and an official event at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.