Kings Face A Summer Of Painful But Necessary Decisions

Los Angeles enters the offseason with the usual mix of hope and maintenance work, which is front-office code for a long list of decisions. The Kings have to sort out what stays, what goes, and which problems are simply being kicked down the road with better branding. This is the part of the calendar when contenders either sharpen the edges or quietly lose ground. For the Kings, the checklist probably feels more like a stress test than a to-do list.