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FWIW, looking at only the top 100 WS/48 this year of players who have qualified by minutes/game (IOW good enough to be considered), and substracting last year's WS/48
1) Kevin Love (great improvement over the injured year, usually ignored in most improved)
2) Bismack Biyombo
3) Goren Dragic
4) Markieff Morris
5) Jeremy Lamb
6) Patrick Mills
7) DeMarcus Cousins
8) Kyle Lowry
9) Arron Afflalo
10) Andrew Bogut (see Love)
Most decrease in WS/48, starting at 98 because Steven Adams (should be but won't be Rookie of the Year) is a rookie and Channing Frye didn't play last year. This isn't the true worst because I only looked at the current top 100. There's probably many like Kobe Bryant and Kevin Garnett who I didn't look at that have fallen more.
98) Tony Parker
97) Kosta Koufos
96) LeBron James (last year was that good since James is still second best in the NBA)
95) Jose Calderon
94) Jared Sullinger
93) Jimmy Butler
92) Thabo Sefalosha
91) Tim Duncan his bad start counts as much as his current play. I'd expect Duncan to climb out of this list.
90) Anderson Verajao
89T) Kevin Martin, Kenneth Faried
Other Spurs, and remember these are the top 100 players with qualified minutes.
Positive
19) Marco Belinelli
59) Boris Diaw
Negative
87) Jeff Ayres (but surprise!, Ayres is in the top 100 this year, 94th while 93rd is Klay Thompson! and 95th is Jared Sullinger!).
