article_snippet.sent: The Indiana Pacers' Chris Copeland and Copeland's wife were stabbed during an early-morning argument after The Indiana Pacers' Chris Copeland and his wife left a popular New York club  on Wednesday, according to reports.
article_snippet.sent: Chris Copeland, 31, and Chris Copeland wife, Katrine Saltare, 28, were talking in the street just before 4am when a 22-year-old man, Shezoy Bleary, interrupted a 22-year-old man, Shezoy Bleary,  the New York Post reported.
article_snippet.sent: When Copeland, who used to play for the New York Knicks, told the man to back off, the man allegedly pulled out a knife and plunged a knife into the athlete's abdomen and elbow.
article_snippet.sent: the man then turned on Saltare, stabbing Copeland's wife in the breast, buttocks and arm, sources told New York Post .
article_snippet.sent: Injured: Chris Copeland, a player for the Indiana Pacers, and Chris Copeland wife, Katrine Saltare, pictured, were both stabbed following an argument outside a New York City club early on Wednesday .
article_snippet.sent: Bloody scene: After Copeland reportedly told a man who interrupted them as they argued outside 1OAK in Chelsea to back off, a man who interrupted them as they argued outside 1OAK in Chelsea pulled out a knife and stabbed Copeland reportedly told the man to back off .
article_snippet.sent: The team confirmed that Copeland had suffered a knife wound to Copeland left elbow and abdomen.
highlights_snippet.sent: Chris Copeland and Chris Copeland wife, Katrine Saltare, 28, were talking in the street when a stranger tried to intervene .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: The man, Shezoy Bleary, 'pulled out a knife and stabbed Chris Copeland in the abdomen and Chris Copeland wife in the breast, buttocks and arm'
  On a video showing the victims being treated in the street, Chris Copeland's wife is heard shouting: 'The man, Shezoy Bleary, ' were stabbed.