Kobe Bryant jokes about Lakers players being surprised at 'Lincoln' when he got shot

This tweet from Dave McMenamin of ESPNLA.com seemed too good to be true:

And alas, it was:

But at least there is this:

The big problem? About 15 minutes passed between the first tweet about Kobe and the tweet that he was joking. More than 1,700 people have retweeted the first one so far. About 50 have retweeted the second one. Ah, the best and worst of Twitter.